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II.—The Earliest Precursor of our Present-Day Monthly Miscellanies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Dorothy Foster
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Extract

When the reader of to-day considers the English origins of our monthly magazines of light literature, he seldom thinks back beyond the Gentleman's Magazine (1731-). The Tatler (1709-) and Spectator (1711-) he may regard as aside from the direct line of development, as they are not miscellanies. Yet in 1692 appeared in London a monthly periodical that is fairly startling in its resemblance to the Atlantics, the Harper's, the Smart Sets of our day,—the Gentleman's Journal, which is, I believe, the first notable English venture of its kind.

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Research Article
Information
PMLA , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , 1917 , pp. 22 - 58
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1917

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1 Beginning with Vol. II a device appears in the center of the title page, an oval lozenge, enclosing a hand holding a nosegay of flowers, above which runs the motto, E PLURIBUS UNUM.

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