Pall Mall Gazette

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The Pall Mall Gazette , founded in 1865, was a prestigious London evening newspaper. Mostly it followed a conservative course. It ended in 1923 when it was taken over by the oldest London evening paper, the Evening Standard .

Surname

It took its name from Pall Mall in west London, where a number of gentlemen's clubs were located. This “elegant” audience was what she had in mind as her readership. The name of the street in turn goes back to a fairway of the croquet-like batball game Pall-Mall .

history

The (abbreviated) PMG or Pall Mall was founded in 1865 by George Murray Smith . First editor (until 1880) was Frederick Greenwood . In 1923 it went on in the Evening Standard , although two years before it had merged with The Globe .

In the course of its almost 60-year existence, a number of well-known authors wrote in Pall Mall , including Friedrich Engels and, in a more liberal and provocative period under William T. Stead , Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw .

In 1885, Stead succeeded in temporarily increasing the circulation from 12,000 to up to a million copies through early “sensational journalism” on the subject of child prostitution .

Echo in the literature

  • Detective Sherlock Holmes places an ad in the Pall Mall Gazette in The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle .
  • In HG Wells ' novel Die Zeitmaschine , the hot off the press edition of the evening paper is used by time travelers returning to London for orientation.
  • The paper is mentioned several times in an extensive biography of Charles Darwin because it was involved in the contemporary discourse on the theory of evolution .

swell

  • John William Robertson-Scott: The Story of the Pall Mall Gazette, of its first editor Frederick Greenwood and of its Founder George Murray Smith , London 1950, reprinted by Praeger, 1971
  • Raymond Schultz: Crusader in Babylon: WT Stead and the Pall Mall Gazette , Lincoln (Nebraska) 1972

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brockhaus Enzyklopädie , 19th edition, Volume 16 from 1991, p. 457.
  2. ↑ Friedrich Engels: About the War , in: The Pall Mall Gazette , July 29, 1870 ff., Accessed on July 19, 2016.
  3. ↑ Owen Mulpetre: WT Stead & the Pall Mall Gazette , accessed on 19 July 2016th
  4. ↑ Norman Domeier: In the realm of scandals. Moral scandals and the importance of intellectuals , in: Die Politische Demokratie 428 (July 2005), p. 63, accessed on July 19, 2016.
  5. ^ Adrian Desmond / James Moore: Darwin , Hamburg 1994, p. 620 et al.

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