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Identifying the Dramatic Writers for Wilkes's Spirit of the Times, 1859–1902.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2009

Tice L. Miller
Tice L. Miller
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University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Theatre Survey , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , May 1979 , pp. 130 - 133
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Copyright © American Society for Theatre Research 1979

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1 The first weekly paper to bear the title Spirit of the Times was founded in 1831 by William T. Porter and James Howe. It was “devoted to the pleasures, amusements, fashions, and divertisements of life.” Porter withdrew from this publication in 1856 and with George Wilkes founded Porter's Spirit of the Times. After Porter's death in 1858, the resulting fight over control of the paper resulted in Wilkes taking the staff and founding Wilkes's Spirit of the Times. He dropped his name from the title in 1868; in 1873 he adopted the numbering of the original paper. See Yates, Norris W., William T. Porter and the Spirit of the Times (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1957)Google Scholar.

2 See Spirit of the Times. 25 May 1867, p. 240Google Scholar.

3 The Leader. 5 March 1864Google Scholar, notes that Frank Wood was employed by Wilkes' Spirit. Scrapbooks of Winter's reviews, in the possession of his great-grandson, Robert Young, Jr., confirm both Wood's illness and Winter's substitution.

4 See “A Dictionary of American Drama Critics, 1850–1910,” compiled by Johnson, Albert E. and Crain, W. H. Jr.The Theatre Annual, 1955, p. 74Google Scholar.

5 See Spirit of the Times, December 4, 1869, p. 256Google Scholar.