The New Monthly Magazine

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The

New Monthly Magazine and Universal Register

was founded in 1814 as a virulently Tory publication, which opposed liberal journals such as the

Edinburgh Review

and Richard Phillips's

Monthly Magazine

. In 1821, its commercially astute publisher Henry Colburn appointed the Whig poet Thomas Campbell as editor and changed the magazine's name to the

New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal

. Under Campbell, and his assistant Cyrus Redding (who did most of the actual editorial work), the

New Monthly

became considerably less political and, perhaps because of the high remuneration that Colburn offered to contributors, the quality of its writing improved greatly. It contained reviews, miscellaneous essays, biographical sketches, stories, poetry, and travel writing. Its most significant…

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Citation: Higgins, David. "The New Monthly Magazine". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 22 October 2006 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=1682, accessed 19 March 2024.]

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