The European Magazine

{{for|other periodicals with similar titles|European (disambiguation)#In publishing{{!}}European#In publishing}} {{short description|Defunct monthly magazine in London}} {{Infobox magazine | title = European Magazine | logo = | logo_size =  | image_file = EuropeanMagazine-coverOct1799.png | image_size =  | image_alt = | image_caption = Front page, October 1799 | editor = 1782: James Perry<br>1782–1807: Isaac Reed<br>1807–c.1820: Stephen Jones<br>c.1820–?: Alfred Beauchamp<ref name=UVA/> | editor_title =  | category = | frequency = Monthly | format = | circulation = 3,250 (late 1700s)<ref name=UVA/> | publisher = | paid_circulation = | unpaid_circulation = | circulation_year = | total_circulation = | founder = James Perry | founded = | firstdate = {{Start date|1782|01}} | finaldate = {{End date|1826|06}} | finalnumber = | company = | country = United Kingdom | based = London | language = English | website =  | issn = | oclc = }} '''''The European Magazine''''' (sometimes referred to as '''''European Magazine''''') was a monthly magazine published in London. Eighty-nine semi-annual volumes were published from 1782 until 1826. It was launched as the ''European Magazine, and London Review'' in January 1782, promising to offer "the Literature, History, Politics, Arts, Etiquette, and Amusements of the Age." It was in direct competition with ''The Gentleman's Magazine'',<ref name=UVA/> and in 1826 was absorbed into the ''Monthly Magazine''.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qVrUTUelE6YC&pg=PA422 |title=Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland |editor1-first=Laurel |editor1-last=Brake |editor2-first=Marysa |editor2-last=Demoor |publisher=Academia Press |date=2009 |page=422|isbn=9789038213408 }}</ref>

Soon after launching the ''European Magazine'', its founding editor, James Perry, passed proprietorship to the Shakespearean scholar Isaac Reed and his partners John Sewell and Daniel Braithwaite, who guided the magazine during its first two decades.<ref name=UVA/>

The articles and other contributions in the magazine appeared over initials or pseudonyms and have largely remained anonymous.<ref name=UVA>{{cite web |url=http://bsuva.org/bsuva/euromag/ |first=Emily Lorraine |last=de Montluzin |title=Attributions of Authorship in the ''European Magazine'', 1782–1826 |publisher=University of Virginia}}</ref> Scholars believe that the contributions include the first published poem by William Wordsworth (1787)<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zCIoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA204 |first=William [Axiologus] |last=Wordsworth |author-link=William Wordsworth |title=Sonnet, on Seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams Weep at a Tale of Distress |journal=European Magazine |volume=11 |number=3 |date=March 1787 |page=202}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Wordsworth: The Chronology of the Early Years 1770–1799 |url=https://archive.org/details/wordsworthchrono0000reed |url-access=registration |first=Mark L. |last=Reed |date=1967 |page=[https://archive.org/details/wordsworthchrono0000reed/page/71 71] |quote=a sonnet printed in the ''European Magazine''... signed Axiologus}}</ref> and the earliest known printing of "O Sanctissima", the popular Sicilian Mariners Hymn (1792).<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NsMPAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA342 |title=Drossiana. Number XXXVIII. The Sicilian Mariner's Hymn to the Virgin |first=William |last=Seward |author-link=William Seward (anecdotist) |journal=European Magazine |volume=22 |number=5 |date=November 1792 |pages=342, 385–386}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=http://www.hymnary.org/tune/sicilian_mariners |title=The Psalter Hymnal Handbook |chapter=Sicilian Mariners |editor-first1=Emily |editor-last1=Brink |editor-first2=Bert |editor-last2=Polman |date=1988 |quote=The ''European Magazine and London Review'' first published it in 1792.}}</ref>

[[File:Beech Hill Park, Hadley Wood.jpg|thumb|left|Beech Hill Park, as illustrated in ''European Magazine'', 1796.<ref name=clark>Clark, Nancy. (1978) ''Hadley Wood: Its background and development''. 2nd revised edition. p. 65.</ref>]]

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==Further reading== {{commons category|European Magazine}} *Helene E. Roberts's short overview of the ''European Magazine'' in Alvin Sullivan, ed., ''British Literary Magazines: The Augustan Age and the Age of Johnson, 1698–1788'' (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1983), pp. 106–112.

==External links== *[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008893409 ''The European Magazine, and London Review'', vols. 1–86], hathitrust.org

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