Bentley's Miscellany

Bentley's Miscellany

Cover, Second edition of March 1837
Author Editor (1836-1838): Charles Dickens
("Boz")
Editor (1839-1868):
William Harrison Ainsworth
Illustrator George Cruikshank
John Leech
Country England
Language English
Series 1836 - 1868
Genre Social Commentary; Humor
Publisher Richard Bentley
Media type Serial
Followed by Temple Bar Magazine

Bentley's Miscellany was an English literary magazine started by Richard Bentley. It was published between 1836 and 1868.

Contributors

Already a successful publisher of novels, Bentley began the journal in 1836 and invited Charles Dickens to be its first editor. Dickens serialised his second novel Oliver Twist but soon fell out with Bentley over editorial control, calling him a "Burlington Street Brigand". He quit as editor in 1839 and William Harrison Ainsworth took over. Ainsworth would also only stay in the job for three years, but bought the magazine from Bentley a decade later. In 1868 Ainsworth sold the magazine back to Bentley, who merged it with the Temple Bar Magazine.

Aside from the works of Dickens and Ainsworth other significant authors published in the magazine included: Wilkie Collins, Catharine Sedgwick, Richard Brinsley Peake, Thomas Moore, Thomas Love Peacock, William Mudford, Mrs Henry Wood, Charles Robert Forrester (sometimes under the pseudonym Hal Willis), Frances Minto Elliot, Isabella Frances Romer, The Ingoldsby Legends and some of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories. It was also the first place to publish cartoons by John Leech, who became a prominent Punch cartoonist.

External links

Volumes I-X

Volumes XI-XX

Volumes XXI-XXX

Volumes XXXI-XL

Volumes XLI-L

Volumes LI-LX

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