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Gentlemans Magazine

Gentleman's Magazine

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | | Copyright

Gentleman's Magazine (1731–1914), a periodical founded by Cave (under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban) originally to reproduce from news-sheets and journals, interesting news, essays, anecdotes, and information. Cave's appears to be the first use of the word ‘magazine’ to describe a journal. By about 1739 original contributions had largely replaced news-digests, and the magazine began to include serious works of criticism, essays, a record of publications, and parliamentary reports. Dr Johnson, a friend of Cave, was a regular contributor and had a great influence on the management of the Magazine; with Cave he devised a means of evading the official ban on parliamentary reporting by pretending his reports were from ‘Lilliput’. J. Nichols was an effective editor from 1792 to 1826.
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Gentleman's Magazine

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Gentleman's Magazine Issued monthly, the Gentleman's Magazine was the brainchild of Edward Cave and achieved a spectacular success. The first issue came out in 1731 and included reviews, essays, songs, births, deaths, and marriages. By the late 1730s Cave was claiming to sell 10,000 copies. In modified form the magazine lasted until 1907 and Cave's premises in Clerkenwell survive.
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