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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... London for a career of miscellaneous writing . For a list of his publications , see Gent . Mag . , 1791 , 1. 485. DNB . ( A. H. Bullen ) . 160 , 220 , 223 , 381 , 453 , 792 , 860 , 912 , 1032 , 1277 , 1286 , 1342 , 1541 , 1647 , 1704 ...
... London for a career of miscellaneous writing . For a list of his publications , see Gent . Mag . , 1791 , 1. 485. DNB . ( A. H. Bullen ) . 160 , 220 , 223 , 381 , 453 , 792 , 860 , 912 , 1032 , 1277 , 1286 , 1342 , 1541 , 1647 , 1704 ...
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... London . He reviews but one book , the first instalment being marked by Griffiths ' Ist art . ' , as though he expected Farmer to become a regular contributor . I have little hesitation in ascribing this review to Farmer , but must ...
... London . He reviews but one book , the first instalment being marked by Griffiths ' Ist art . ' , as though he expected Farmer to become a regular contributor . I have little hesitation in ascribing this review to Farmer , but must ...
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... London in 1772 from a career as an actor in Scotland , and became editor of The London Packet ; the reviews in the Monthly first appear in January 1773. In 1774 he abandoned the Packet for the editorship of the Morning Chronicle , a ...
... London in 1772 from a career as an actor in Scotland , and became editor of The London Packet ; the reviews in the Monthly first appear in January 1773. In 1774 he abandoned the Packet for the editorship of the Morning Chronicle , a ...
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