Fortnightly Review, The

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Litencyc Editors (Independent Scholar - Europe)
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In reaction against the partisan journals already in the market,

The Fortnightly Review

was founded in 1865 by a group including the novelist Anthony Trollope, the jurist Frederic Harrison, and the Positivist Edward Spencer Beesly, as a means of broadcasting a range of ideas. Under the editorship of G. H. Lewes and then John Morley, however, it gradually became known as a liberal magazine, developing its own sense of political identity. Along with

Macmillan's Magazine

, it was one of the first magazines to have a policy of authors signing their articles. Before this point, it was standard policy for periodical articles to be written anonymously, but by the mid-nineteenth century this had become heavily disputed, as its opponents saw it as encouraging puffery and defamation, while its…

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