English Review (18th century)

English Review

Editor	Gilbert Stuart
Categories	English and Foreign Literature
Year founded	1783
Final issue	1796
Country	Great Britain
Based in	London
Language	English

The English Review was a London literary magazine launched in 1783 by John Murray I, under the full title English Review, or Abstract of English and Foreign Literature. Its editor was Gilbert Stuart.

Initially Stuart wrote much of the Review with William Thomson. He died in 1786.^[1] Thomson carried it on, becoming proprietor in 1794. In 1796 the English Review was merged into the Analytical Review.^[2]

Contributors

Some notable contributors to the magazine were:

• Thomas Beddoes^[3]
• Edmund Cartwright^[3]
• James Currie^[2]
• William Godwin^[2]
• Alexander Hamilton^[3]
• John Hellins^[3]
• Thomas Holcroft, dramatic criticism in the early numbers^[2]
• John Obadiah Justamond^[2]
• Robert Liston, foreign literature^[3]
• John Logan, Scottish church politics^[3]
• John Moore^[2]
• John Whitaker^[2]

References

1. J. Gunn (1 July 1983). Beyond Liberty and Property: The Process of Self-Recognition in Eighteenth-Century Political Thought. McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 284. ISBN 978-0-7735-1006-7. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
2. Derek Roper (1978). Reviewing before the Edinburgh, 1788-1802. University of Delaware Press. p. 22. ISBN 978-0-87413-128-4. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
3. William Zachs (1992). Without Regard to Good Manners: A Biography of Gilbert Stuart 1743–1786. Edinburgh University Press. p. 175. ISBN 978-0-74860-319-0.