Quarterly Review
The Quarterly Review was an English journal of politics and literature that appeared quarterly from 1809 to 1967. It was close to the Conservatives ( Tories ) and was one of the most famous magazines in Britain in the 19th century.
It was launched by Foreign Secretary George Canning in response to the liberal Edinburgh Review and was published by John Murray in London . The first editor until 1824 was William Gifford . They initially represented liberal, conservative views and were opposed to major reforms, but against slavery, moderate judicial reforms and for more humane treatment of prisoners and the mentally ill. The initial authors included John Wilson Croker , Robert Southey , Walter Scott , Charles Lamb , Charles Maturin and Ugo Foscolo .
Walter Scott's son-in-law and biographer John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854) was editor from 1826 to 1853. Under him, the magazine opened up to more conservative Tory currents. From 1867 to 1893 the lexicographer William Smith was editor.
They were known for some violent reviews, for example by Lady Morgan , Walter Savage Landor , Mary Wollestonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley and in 1817 the Endymion by John Keats (by John Wilson Croker). Shelley and Byron blamed Keats's demolition for Keats's death.
Since 2007 there has been a magazine of the same name in England, which is also close to the Conservatives (and is the successor to Right Now! Which was published from 1993 to 2005 ).
literature
- Joanne Shattock: Politics and Reviewers: The Edinburgh and the Quarterly in the Early Victorian Age, Leicester University Press, 1989