Saturday Review (London)

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The Saturday Review of politics, literature, science, and art was a London weekly newspaper established by A. J. B. Beresford Hope in 1855.

The first editor was the Morning Chronicle's ex-editor John Douglas Cook (1808?–1868), and many of the earlier contributors had worked on the Chronicle.^[1] The politics of the Saturday Review was Peelite liberal Conservatism. The paper, benefitting from the recent repeal of the Stamp Act, aimed to combat the political influence of The Times.^[2] Frank Harris was editor from 1894 to 1898. The first issue appeared on 3 November, 1855.

Contributors included Lady Emilia Dilke, Anthony Trollope.^[3], H. G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Eneas Sweetland Dallas and Max Beerbohm.

The Saturday Review continued to be published until 1938.

[edit] References

1. ^ Barbara Quinn Schmidt, ‘Cook, John Douglas (1808?–1868)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 4 Jan 2008
2. ^ Andrews, Alexander,Chapters in the History of British Journalism, 1859, pp. 232-4
3. ^ Fielding, K. J., 'Trollope and the Saturday Review', Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 37, No. 3 (Dec., 1982), pp. 430-442

• Bevington, M. M., The Saturday Review, 1855-1868: Representative Educated Opinion in Victorian England. New York: Columbia University Press, 1941.