The New England Magazine

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The New-England Magazine was an American monthly magazine that appeared in Boston from 1831 to 1835 .

history

The magazine was founded in 1831 by Joseph T. Buckingham . Initially, his son Edwin Buckingham took over most of the editorial duties, but he died in 1833 of tuberculosis. In 1834 Buckingham hired Samuel G. Howe and John O. Sargent as editors; after less than a year they were again replaced by Park Benjamin , who could not prevent the bankruptcy of the paper.

In the only five years of its existence, New England Magazine was considered to be one of the outstanding consumer magazines in New England, if not the United States, in spite of a very manageable circulation. Politically, the paper, like its readership, was conservative and often propagated the Whigs' positions ; his authors included Daniel Webster and Joseph Story . The editorial focus was less on explicitly political than on cultural issues. Several of the leading American writers have appeared in New England Magazine , including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and John Greenleaf Whittier . The first essays of Oliver Wendell Holmes ' The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table first appeared in his pages, as did 15 stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne , including Young Goodman Brown , The Ambitious Guest , The Gray Champion and Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe .

Secondary literature

  • Ronald Lora and William Henry Longton (Eds.): The Conservative Press in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century America . Greenwood Press, Westport CT 1999. ISBN 0-313-31043-2

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