The New-York Magazine

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The New-York Magazine; or, Literary Repository
Categories Literary magazine
FrequencyMonthly
PublisherThomas and James Swords
First issueJanuary 1790 (1790-01)
Final issueDecember 1797 (1797-12)
CountryUnited States
Based in New York City
LanguageEnglish
OCLC 2413653

The New-York Magazine; or, Literary Repository was a monthly literary magazine published in New York City from 1790 to 1797, and claimed as one of the four most important magazines of its time. [1] One of the longest-running magazines of that era (it published almost 100 issues), [2] it focused on theater and travel writing and also essays, poems, and short stories. [3]

The magazine was founded by Thomas and James Swords, who published, printed, and probably edited it. Some of the writers came from "The Friendly Club", a literary society, and included William Dunlap (author of the theater column) and Elihu Hubbard Smith, besides beginning and established authors such as Charles Brockden Brown and Joel Barlow, whose The Hasty-Pudding was published by the magazine in 1796. [4]

Illustrated with costly copperplate engravings, its subscribers included George Washington, John Adams, [2] John Jay, and Richard Varick. [5]

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References

  1. Communities of Journalism: A History of American Newspapers, David Paul Nord, 2001, p. 175. "With such a distinguished readership it is little wonder that the publishers of the New-York Magazine; or, Literary Repository decided to publish a list of subscribers to their first volume in 1790."
  2. 1 2 Hutchinson, Peter (2008). "A Publisher's History of American Magazines — Eighteenth-Century American Magazines" (PDF). The Magazinist. Retrieved 2013-06-06.
  3. "Early Periodical Collections on Microfilm". Armstrong Atlantic State University . Retrieved 2013-06-06.
  4. Lemay, J. A. Leo (1982). "The Contexts and Themes of "The Hasty-Pudding"". Early American Literature . 17 (1): 3–23. JSTOR   25056448.
  5. Nord, David Paul (1988). "A Republican Literature: A Study of Magazine Reading and Readers in Late Eighteenth-Century New York". American Quarterly . 40 (1): 42–64. doi:10.2307/2713141. JSTOR   2713141.