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IMPORTANT JOURNALS AND PERIODICALS IN ENGLISH LITERARY HISTORY

IMPORTANT JOURNALS AND PERIODICALS IN ENGLISH LITERARY HISTORY




Here we are providing the important PERIODICALS, magazines and journals produced in English Literary History.  LITERARY SPHERE 

Here’s a list of members or contributors related to each of these journals:

1. The Tatler (1709-1711) - Founded by Richard Steele (not Daniel Defoe), with contributions by Joseph Addison.
   
2. The Spectator (1711-1712) - Joseph Addison and Richard Steele were key figures.

3. The Rambler (1750-1752) - Samuel Johnson was the main contributor.

4. The Monthly Review (1749-1845) - Founded by Ralph Griffiths.

5. The Critical Review (1756-1815) - Edited by Tobias Smollett.

6. The Edinburgh Review (1802-1925) - Founded by Francis Jeffrey, with contributions from Henry Brougham and Walter Scott.

7. The Quarterly Review (1809-1902) - Founded by John Murray, contributors include Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey.

8. Blackwood's Magazine (1817-present) - Founded by William Blackwood, it featured works by Thomas de Quincey and James Hogg.

9. Fraser's Magazine (1830-1882) - Founded by James Fraser, associated with William Makepeace Thackeray.

10. The Yellow Book (1894-1897) - Edited by Henry Harland and Aubrey Beardsley, with contributions from Oscar Wilde.

11. The Little Review (1914-1929) - Founded by Margaret Anderson, edited by Ezra Pound, featured James Joyce’s "Ulysses."

12. The Lounger (1785-1787) - Founded by Henry Mackenzie.

13. The Germ (1850) - Associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt.

14. The Cornhill Magazine (1859-present) - Founded by William Makepeace Thackeray.

15. The Strand Magazine (1891-1950) - Featured Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories.

16. The New Yorker (1925-present) - Known for publishing work by J.D. Salinger, John Updike, and many others.

17. The Paris Review (1953-present) - Founded by George Plimpton, known for interviews with Ernest Hemingway, and others.

18. The New Left Review (1960-present) - Founded by Stuart Hall, contributors include Perry Anderson and Tariq Ali.

19. n+1 (2001-present) - Founded by Keith Gessen and others, with essays by Mark Greif.

20. The London Review of Books (1979-present) - Founded by Karl Miller, with contributors like Mary Beard and Colm Tóibín. 

This information captures the main members and contributors related to each journal. 
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