English Review (18th century)

English Review
Editor Gilbert Stuart
Categories English and Foreign Literature
Year founded 1783
Final issue 1796
Country Great Britain
Based in London
Language English

The English Review was a London literary magazine launched in 1783 by John Murray I, under the full title English Review, or Abstract of English and Foreign Literature. Its editor was Gilbert Stuart.

Initially Stuart wrote much of the Review with William Thomson. He died in 1786.[1] Thomson carried it on, becoming proprietor in 1794. In 1796 the English Review was merged into the Analytical Review.[2]

Contributors

Some notable contributors to the magazine were:

References

  1. J. Gunn (1 July 1983). Beyond Liberty and Property: The Process of Self-Recognition in Eighteenth-Century Political Thought. McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 284. ISBN 978-0-7735-1006-7. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Derek Roper (1978). Reviewing before the Edinburgh, 1788-1802. University of Delaware Press. p. 22. ISBN 978-0-87413-128-4. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 William Zachs (1992). Without Regard to Good Manners: A Biography of Gilbert Stuart 1743–1786. Edinburgh University Press. p. 175. ISBN 978-0-74860-319-0.
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