Athenaeum (London)

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The Athenaeum is the title of a magazine that appeared in London from 1828 to 1921. It was one of the most influential periodicals of the Victorian era in the field of literature and science.

Athenaeum was founded in January 1828 by James Silk Buckingham . However, he left her in the same year, leaving her to John Sterling. In the 19th century, for example, articles by William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, appeared . In the early 20th century published in the Athenaeum , the authors Max Beerbohm , Edmund Blunden , TS Eliot , Robert Graves , Thomas Hardy , Aldous Huxley , Edith Sitwell , Julian Huxley , Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf .

As the circulation fell, the Athenaeum was taken over by its competitor The Nation in 1921 and integrated into this magazine. In 1930 The Nation merged with the New Statesman and changed its name to New Statesman and Nation by 1964 . It later became the New Statesman again and has remained so to this day.

literature

  • Marysa Demoor: Their Fair Share: Women, Power, and Criticism in the Athenaeum, from Millicent Garratt Fawcett to Katharine Mansfield, 1870-1920 . Ashgate, Aldershot 2000, ISBN 9780754601180
  • Walter James Graham: The Athenaeum . In: English Literary Periodicals . T. Nelson, New York 1930, pp. 317-321.
  • Leslie A. Marchand: The Athenaeum: A Mirror of Victorian Culture . University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill 1941.
  • Alvin Sullivan (Ed.): The Athenaeum . In: British Literary Magazines . Volume 3. Greenwood Press, Westport, CT 1983, pp. 21-24.

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