The New-England Magazine

The New - England Magazine was an American monthly magazine that was published from 1831 to 1835 in Boston.

History

The magazine was founded in 1831 by Joseph T. Buckingham. First, his son Ediwn Buckingham took over the majority of the out lative duties, but he died in 1833 of tuberculosis. 1834 Buckingham committed then Samuel G. Howe and John O. Sargent as editor; after less than one year, they were in turn replaced by Park Benjamin, however, failed to prevent the bankruptcy of the sheet.

In just five years of its existence, the New England Magazine was despite a well very manageable edition as one of the outstanding popular magazines of New England, if not the United States. Politically the sheet as his readership was dominated conservative and often advocated positions of the Whigs; to its authors were such as Daniel Webster and Joseph Story. The editorial focus was, however, less explicitly political than on cultural issues. Several of the leading American writer published in the New England Magazine, such as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and John Greenleaf Whittier. The first essay by Oliver Wendell Holmes ' The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table first appeared in its pages, as well as 15 short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown among them, The Ambitious Guest, The Gray Champion and Mr. Higginbotham 's Catastrophe.

Secondary literature

• Ronald Lora and William Henry Longton (ed.): The Conservative Press in Eighteenth -and Nineteenth -century America. Greenwood Press, Westport CT, 1999. ISBN 0-313-31043-2