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''The New Monthly Magazine'' was a British monthly magazine published by Henry Colburn between 1814 and 1884. ==History== Colburn and Frederic Shoberl established ''The New Monthly Magazine and Universal Register'' as a "virulently Tory"〔David Higgins, ('The New Monthly Magazine' ), ''The Literary Encyclopedia'', 22 October 2006.〕 competitor to Sir Richard Phillips' ''Monthly Magazine'' in 1814. "The double-column format and the comprehensive contents combined the Gentleman's Magazine with the Annual Register".〔'Introduction', ''Wellesley Index to Periodical Literature''〕 In its April 1819 issue it published John Polidori's Gothic fiction ''The Vampyre'', the first significant piece of prose vampire literature in English, attributing it to Lord Byron (who partly inspired it). In 1821 Colburn recast the magazine with a more literary and less political focus, retitling it ''The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal''. Nominally edited by the poet Thomas Campbell, most editing fell to the sub-editor Cyrus Redding. Colburn paid contributors well, and they included Sydney 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.〔'Introduction', ''Wellesley Index to Periodical Literature''; Higgins, ''The Literary Encyclopedia''.〕 Hazlitt's "Table-Talk" essays, begun in the ''London Magazine'', appeared in the ''New Monthly'' from late 1821, his essay "The Fight" appeared in 1822,〔(New Monthly Magazine Vol 3, 1822 page 102 ) at Google Books〕 and his series "The Spirits of the Age'" was later republished, with essays from other sources, in the book ''The Spirit of the Age'' (1825).〔Higgins, ''The Literary Encyclopedia''.〕 Charles Knight's ''London Magazine'' merged with the ''New Monthly'' in 1829, and in that year Richard Bentley became Colburn's business partner. After Redding resigned in 1830, Campbell found himself unable to edit the magazine on his own and Samuel Carter Hall became editor for a year. In 1831 the novelist Edward Bulwer became editor, turning "the essentially apolitical, slightly Whiggish, literary journal into a vigorous radical organ shouting 'Reform' at the top of its lungs."〔Introduction, ''Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals''〕 Hall, a political Conservative, had remained as sub-editor, and resisted Bulwer's efforts: Bulwer resigned in 1833, with Hall taking up the editorship once more. Contributors now included Catherine Gore, Anna Maria Hall, Felicia Hemans, Caroline Norton, Thomas Haynes Bayley, and Theodore Edward Hook. In 1837 the magazine was retitled ''The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist'', to meet the challenge of ''Bentley's Miscellany''. Now edited by Theodore Hook, it published contributions from Leigh Hunt, Douglas Jerrold, Frederick Marryat, Frances Trollope, Charles Robert Forrester, and W. M. Thackeray. Upon Hook's death in 1841, Thomas Hood was editor until 1843.〔'Introduction', ''Wellesley Index to Periodical Literature''. According to the ODNB, the transcendentalist Francis Barham (1808–1871) edited the paper at around this time: "Two hundred pounds invested in the New Monthly Magazine procured him the joint editorship with John Abraham Heraud, the poet and dramatist. Anne Taylor, (‘Barham, Francis Foster (Alist Francis Barham) (1808–1871)’ ), ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 4 January 2008. Heraud's ODNB entry has him editing the ''Monthly Magazine'' from 1839 to 1842, but does not mention the ''New Monthly''.〕 In Colburn sold the magazine for £2500 to William Harrison Ainsworth, who had earlier edited ''Bentley's Miscellany'' and who now edited his own ''Ainsworth's Magazine''. Ainsworth edited the ''New Monthly'' with his cousin William Francis Ainsworth as sub-editor. From 1871–79 William Francis Ainsworth was editor. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The New Monthly Magazine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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