Pall Mall Gazette

The Pall Mall Gazette, founded in 1865, was a respected London evening newspaper. They were mainly based on a conservative course. Her end was in 1923 through the acquisition by the oldest London evening paper, the Evening Standard.

Name

She referred your name from the city, in West London, Pall Mall, in which several gentlemen's clubs were located. This " noble " audience floated to her as readership. The name of the street turn goes back to a base situated therein fairway of krocketähnlichen Rounders game Pall Mall.

History

The (abbreviated ) PMG or Pall Mall was founded in 1865 by George Murray Smith. First editor ( until 1880 ) was Frederick Greenwood. In 1923 she went to the Evening Standard, although she had two years previously partnered with The Globe.

In the Pall Mall enrolled in the course of their 60-year existence, a number of renowned authors, including Friedrich Engels and, in a more liberal and provocative period under William T. Stead, also Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw.

1885 succeeded Stead, temporarily increase circulation of 12,000 by early " sensational journalism " on the subject of child prostitution to up to a million copies.

Echo in the literature

• Meisterdedektiv Sherlock Holmes is on display in the Pall Mall Gazette.
• In HG Wells 's novel The Time Machine, the freshly printed edition of the Evening Gazette is the returning to London time travelers to the temporal orientation.
• The sheet is mentioned several times in an extensive biography of Charles Darwin, because it is involved in the contemporary discourse on the theory of evolution.

Swell

• John William Robertson Scott: The Story of the Pall Mall Gazette, of its first editor Frederick Greenwood and of its founder George Murray Smith, London 1950, reprint published by Praeger, 1971
• Raymond Schultz: Crusader in Babylon: WT Stead and the Pall Mall Gazette, Lincoln ( Nebraska) 1972