The New Monthly Magazine

The New Monthly Magazine was an existing 1814-1884 British monthly magazine.

History

Henry Colburn and Frederic Shoberl founded in 1814 The New Monthly Magazine and Universal Register as a "sharp Toryzeitung " and as a competitor of Sir Richard Phillips Monthly Magazine.

In April 1819 they released John Polidori's gothic novel The Vampyre, the first major prose work of vampire literature in England, which Polidori wrote at the suggestion of Lord Byron.

In 1821 Colburn gave the magazine under the new title The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal a more literary and less political focus. Nominally edited by the poet Thomas Campbell, the practical work of Cyrus Redding was done. Among the authors are about Lady Morgan, Thomas Charles Morgan, Peter George Patmore, Mary Shelley, Charles Lamb Leigh Hunt, Stendhal, Thomas Noon Talfourd, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ugo Foscolo, Richard Lalor Sheil Mary Russell Mitford, Edward Bulwer, James and Horace Smith and William Hazlitt Hazlitt's "Table - Talk" essays that were first published in the London Magazine, published in New Monthly in 1821, his essay "The Fight " was released in 1822, and his series "The Spirits of the Age" was later together with other essays reprinted in the book the Spirit of the Age.

1829 Charles Knights merged with the New London Magazine Monthlyund Richard Bentley was Colburn's business partner. After Redding's resignation in 1830 Campbell Samuel Carter Hall hired as an editor for a year. 1831 took over the writer Edward Bulwer as an editor and intensified the tone considerably. Hall, a political conservative, had remained as editor and different views on Bulwer Bulwer's efforts led to withdrawal in 1833. Among the regular contributors now include Catherine Gore, Anna Maria Hall, Felicia Hemans, Caroline Norton, Thomas Haynes Bayley and Edward Hook

In 1837, the magazine was renamed to The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist. Now edited by Theodore Hook, it publishes articles by Leigh Hunt, Douglas William Jerrold, Frederick Marryat, Frances Trollope, Charles Robert Forrester and William Makepeace Thackeray. After the death of hooks in 1841 was Thomas Hood editor until 1843.

Colburn then sold the magazine for £ 2,500 to William Harrison Ainsworth. Ainsworth edited the New Monthly with his cousin William Francis Ainsworth. From 1871 to 1879 William Francis Ainsworth was editor in chief.

Title History

• The New Monthly Magazine and Universal Register - February 1814 to December 1820
• The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal - January 1821 to December 1836
• The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist - January 1837 to December 1852
• The New Monthly Magazine - January 1853-December 1881
• The New Monthly - January to October 1882.

Editors

Credentials

Further Reading

• David Higgins, ' Englishness, effeminacy, and the New Monthly Magazine: Hazlitt's "The Fight " in Context ', Romanticism 10:2 ( Autumn 2004), 170-90
• The New Monthly Magazine. Vol 145. 1869 at Google Books. This is the load volume for full Which views are available. There after, only snippet views are available via below.