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The Young Men's Magazine
''The Young Men's Magazine'' is the last of a series of three magazines written by Branwell Brontë and his sister Charlotte. The journals were handwritten mini-books containing articles, stories, letters, and reviews, inspired by and following the model of ''Blackwood's Magazine'' and ''Fraser's Magazine''. A notable issue is volume 2, a copy of which was sold in December 2011 for ₤690,850 at Sotheby's in London. Writing the magazine on the basis of established literary models helped Charlotte and Branwell in their maturation process toward becoming "literary professionals."〔Bock 52.〕
==History==
The Brontë siblings began writing prose and poetry related to their paracosmic fantasy world in the 1820s, and in December 1827 produced a novel, ''Glass Town''. In January 1829 Branwell started publishing a monthly miscellany involving events and characters from that world, ''Branwell's Blackwood's Magazine'', the title taken from the well-known magazine ''Blackwood's Magazine'', and its content inspired by ''Blackwoods'' and ''Fraser's Magazine''.〔 Branwell published it for six months.〔Barnard, "Branwell's Blackwood's Magazine."〕 Its name changed to ''Blackwood's Young Men's Magazine'' when Charlotte took it over in 1829; six volumes were published over the next six months. She resurrected it in August 1830 as ''The Young Men's Magazine''. The Young Men were characters based on the original twelve wooden soldiers bought by Rev. Brontë for Branwell in 1826.〔Barnard, "Blackwood's Young Men's Magazine."〕 The books were supposed to have been produced and read by the soldiers, thus their miniature size.
What the magazine borrowed especially from ''Blackwood's'' was its alternating between serious and satirical points of view, a dynamic Charlotte apparently found very attractive—she wrote, for instance, a series of contributions for two opposite frequent contributors to her magazine, "the sentimental Marquis of Douro and the sardonic Lord Charles Wellesley,"〔Glen 9.〕 sons of the Duke of Wellington, both of whom also figure in the plays she writes.〔Azim 114.〕 Wellesley, Douro, and others wrote in correspondence columns; the magazine also featured advertisements; in one of those Lord Charles Wellesley challenges a man who insulted him in a tavern "to try a match at fisty-cuffs."〔Bock 48.〕
The prose fiction and drama is set in what has been called "Glass Town Saga", the fictional world set in West-Africa, prompted by the gift of twelve little wooden soldiers to Branwell by his father. Stories related to these characters made their way into hundreds of little books, including, in 1829, the magazine. The authors' names were likewise fantastical or imaginative, often related to wood: Branwell signs as "Sergeant Bud," and under Charlotte's editorship contributions are signed "WT" ("we two") or "UT" ("us two"). Charlotte as editor assumes the name "Captain Tree".〔
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