The Knickerbocker

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The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, was a literary magazine of New York City, founded by Charles Fenno Hoffman in 1833, and published until 1859. Its editor was Lewis Gaylord Clark, whose "Editor's Table" column was a staple of the magazine.

The circle of writers who contributed to the magazine and populated its cultural milieu are often known as the "Knickerbocker writers." The group included such authors as Washington Irving, Fitz Hugh Ludlow, William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, Bayard Taylor, George William Curtis, Richard Henry Stoddard, Elizabeth Clementine Stedman, John Greenleaf Whittier, Horace Greeley, and James Fenimore Cooper.

[edit] References

  • Spivey, Herman Everette. "The Knickerbocker Magazine, 1833-1865: A Study of its History, Contents, and Significance." Ph.D. dissertation, University of North Carolina, 1936.
  • Mott, Frank Luther. A History of American Magazines, volume 1 (1741-1850). Harvard University Press/Belknap, 1930. ISBN 0-674-39550-6.
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