The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volumes 1-81Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths, Oliver Goldsmith R. Griffiths, 1934 - Books A monthly book announcement and review journal. Considered to be the first periodical in England to offer reviews. In each issue the longer reviews are in the front section followed by short reviews of lesser works. It featured the novelist and poet Oliver Goldsmith as an early contributor. Griffiths himself, and likely his wife Isabella Griffiths, contributed review articles to the periodical. Later contributors included Dr. Charles Burney, John Cleland, Theophilus Cibber, James Grainger, Anna Letitia Barbauld, Elizabeth Moody, and Tobias Smollet. |
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... Enfield , Samuel Rose , and John Wolcot ( Peter Pindar ) . It would have been dif- ficult to assemble for a single periodical a staff boasting of higherstell academic degrees and memberships of learned societies , or better qualified to ...
... Enfield , Samuel Rose , and John Wolcot ( Peter Pindar ) . It would have been dif- ficult to assemble for a single periodical a staff boasting of higherstell academic degrees and memberships of learned societies , or better qualified to ...
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... Enfield , who in 1770 succeeded Seddon as a tutor at the academy . He was the father of John Aikin , M.D. , whose first review ( so marked by Griffiths ) did not appear until 1776. For further particulars concerning Aikin , see the ...
... Enfield , who in 1770 succeeded Seddon as a tutor at the academy . He was the father of John Aikin , M.D. , whose first review ( so marked by Griffiths ) did not appear until 1776. For further particulars concerning Aikin , see the ...
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... ENFIELD , WILLIAM , LL.D. ( 1741-97 ) . E , En , E - d , En - d , Enf , Enf - d . August , 1774 - October , 1789. On Seddon's death in 1770 , Enfield was elected to the staff of the academy at Warrington . This connexion was probably ...
... ENFIELD , WILLIAM , LL.D. ( 1741-97 ) . E , En , E - d , En - d , Enf , Enf - d . August , 1774 - October , 1789. On Seddon's death in 1770 , Enfield was elected to the staff of the academy at Warrington . This connexion was probably ...
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