The Metropolitan Magazine

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The Metropolitan: a monthly journal of literature, science, and the fine arts was a London monthly journal established by Thomas Campbell in 1831.

Campbell and Cyrus Redding were the first editors of the Metropolitan. Frederick Marryat became editor in 1832. From vol. 6 (1833) onwards the magazine went under the name The Metropolitan Magazine. Marryat appointed the novelist Edward Howard (1793-1841) as a sub-editor in 1833: Howard serialized his semi-autobiographical Life of a Sub-Editor in the Metropolitan in 1834. Though Marryat resigned the editorship in 1835, he kept a connection with the Metropolitan for another year.

Contributors included the poet Maria Abdy (c. 1800-1867), the novelist and poet Isabella Blagden (1816/17-73), Eliza Cook, Antonio Gallenga, the mesmerist Spencer Timothy Hall (1812-85), Hargrave Jennings (1817?-1890), the philosopher Thomas Charles Morgan (c. 1780-1843) and the poet and novelist Annie Tinsley (1808-85).^[1]

The magazine stopped publication in 1850.