- Saturday Review (London)
"The Saturday Review of politics, literature, science, and art" was a
London weekly newspaper established byA. J. B. Beresford Hope in1855 .The first editor was the "
Morning Chronicle "'s ex-editorJohn Douglas Cook (1808?–1868), and many of the earlier contributors had worked on the "Chronicle". [Barbara Quinn Schmidt, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/6145 ‘Cook, John Douglas (1808?–1868)’] , "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 4 Jan 2008] The politics of the "Saturday Review" wasPeelite liberal Conservatism. The paper, benefitting from the recent repeal of the Stamp Act, aimed to combat the political influence of "The Times ". [Andrews, Alexander,"Chapters in the History of British Journalism", 1859, pp. 232-4]Frank Harris was editor from 1894 to 1898. The first issue appeared on3 November , 1855.Contributors included Lady Emilia Dilke,
Anthony Trollope . [Fielding, K. J., 'Trollope and the Saturday Review', "Nineteenth-Century Fiction", Vol. 37, No. 3 (Dec., 1982), pp. 430-442] ,H. G. Wells ,George Bernard Shaw , Eneas Sweetland Dallas andMax Beerbohm .The "Saturday Review" continued to be published until
1938 .References
*Bevington, M. M., "The Saturday Review, 1855-1868: Representative Educated Opinion in Victorian England". New York: Columbia University Press, 1941.
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