Blackwood's Magazine was a British magazine and miscellany printed between 1817 and 1980. It was founded by the publisher William Blackwood and was originally called Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, although it soon adopted the shorter name or often simply Maga. The title page bore the image of George Buchanan, 16th century Scottish historian. The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... An anthology is a collection of literary works, originally of poems, but in recent years its usage has broadened to be applied to collections of short stories and comic strips. ... 1817 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... A publisher is a person or entity which engages in the act of publishing. ... William Blackwood (November 20, 1776 - September 16, 1834), Scottish publisher, founder of the firm of William Blackwood & Sons, was born of humble parents at Edinburgh. ... George Buchanan. ... (15th century - 16th century - 17th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 to 1600. ...

It was conceived as a rival to the Whig supporting Edinburgh Review but compared to the rather staid tone of The Quarterly Review, the other main Tory work, Maga was ferocious and combative. This is due primarily to the work its principal writer John Wilson who wrote under the pseudonym of Christopher North. Never trusted with the editorship he nevertheless wrote much of the magazine along with the other major contributor John Gibson Lockhart. Their mixture of satire, reviews and criticism both barbed and insightful was extremely popular and the magazine quickly gained a large audience While the Whigs (along with the Tories) are often described as one of the two political parties in late 17th to mid 19th century Great Britain, it is more accurate to describe them as loose political groupings or tendencies. ... The Edinburgh Review was one of the most influential British magazines of the 19th century. ... Quarterly Review was a review journal started by John Murray, the celebrated London publisher, in March 1809 (though it bore a title page date of February), in rivalry with the Edinburgh Review, which had been seven years in possession of the field, and was exerting, as he judged, an evil... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... John Wilson (May 18, 1785 - April 3, 1854) was a Scottish writer, the Christopher North of Blackwoods Magazine. ... A pseudonym (Greek: false name) is a fictitious name used by an individual as an alternative to his or her legal name. ... John Gibson Lockhart (July 14, 1794 - November 25, 1854), Scottish writer and editor, was born in the manse of Cambusnethan in Lanarkshire, where his father, Dr John Lockhart, transferred in 1796 to Glasgow, was minister. ...

For all its conservative credentials the magazine published the works of radicals of British romanticism such as Percy Bysshe Shelley and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Through Wilson the magazine was a keen supporter of William Wordsworth, parodied the Byronmania common in Europe and angered John Keats, Leigh Hunt and William Hazlitt by referring to their works as the "Cockney School of Poetry". The controversy causing style of the magazine got it into trouble when in 1821 John Scott, the editor of the London Magazine, fought a duel with Jonathan Henry Christie over libellous statements in the magazine. John Scott was shot and killed. Romanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in late 18th century Western Europe. ... Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley (August 4, 1792 – July 8, 1822; pronounced ) was one of the major English Romantic poets and is widely considered to be among the finest lyric poets of the English language. ... Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, 1795 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (October 21, 1772 – July 25, 1834) (pronounced ) was an English poet, critic, and philosopher who was, along with his friend William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England and one of the Lake Poets. ... William Wordsworth, English poet William Wordsworth (April 7, 1770 – April 23, 1850) was a major English romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their 1798 joint publication, Lyrical Ballads. ... Lord Byron, Anglo-Scottish poet George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (January 22, 1788–April 19, 1824) was an Anglo-Scottish poet and a leading figure in Romanticism. ... European redirects here. ... John Keats John Keats (October 31, 1795 – February 23, 1821) was one of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement. ... An artists rendering of James Henry Leigh Hunt James Henry Leigh Hunt (October 19, 1784 - August 28, 1859) was an English essayist and writer. ... William Hazlitt (10 April 1778 – 18 September 1830) was an English writer remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism, often esteemed the greatest English literary critic after Samuel Johnson. ... The coronation banquet for George IV 1821 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Harro5 23:13, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC) Categories: Possible copyright violations ... In English and American law, and systems based on them, libel and slander are two forms of defamation (or defamation of character), which is the tort or delict of making a false statement of fact that injures someones reputation. ...

John Wilson was by far the most important writer for the magazine and gave it much of its tone, popularity and notoriety. By the 1840s when Wilson was contributing less its circulation declined. Aside from essays it also printed a good deal of horror fiction and this is regarded as an important influence on later Victorian writers such as Charles Dickens, the Brontë sisters and Edgar Allan Poe who satirised the magazine's obsessions in How to Write a Blackwood Article. The magazine never regained its early success but it still held a dedicated readership throughout the British Empire amongst those in colonial service. One late nineteenth century triumph was the first publication of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness in the February, March, and April 1899 issues of the magazine. It finally ended in 1980, remaining in the Blackwood family its entire history. // Events and Trends Technology First use of general anesthesia in an operation, by Crawford Long The first electrical telegraph sent by Samuel Morse on May 24, 1844 from Baltimore to Washington, D.C.. War, peace and politics First signing of the Treaty of Waitangi (Te Tiriti o Waitangi) on February... Horror fiction is, broadly, fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle, or horrify the reader. ... Dickens redirects here. ... Brontë - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, editor, critic and one of the leaders of the American Romantic Movement. ... The British Empire in 1897, marked in pink, the traditional colour for Imperial British dominions on maps. ... Joseph Conrad. ... Heart of Darkness is a novella by Joseph Conrad. ...

Important contributors included: George Eliot, Joseph Conrad, John Buchan, James Hogg, Charles Neaves, Thomas de Quincey, Elizabeth Clementine Stedman, and Margaret Oliphant. George Eliots birthplace at South Farm, Arbury George Eliot is the pen name of Mary Anne Evans[1] (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880), who was an English novelist. ... Joseph Conrad. ... John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (August 26, 1875 - February 11, 1940), was a Scottish novelist and politician who served as Governor General of Canada. ... For the Texas Governor, see Jim Hogg James Hogg James Hogg (1770 - November 21, 1835) was a Scottish poet and novelist who wrote in both Scots and English. ... Lord Neaves as jurist Charles Neaves (1800–1876), also known as Lord Neaves, is a Scottish theologian, jurist and writer who served as Rector of the University of Saint Andrews. ... Thomas de Quincey from the frontispiece of Revolt of the Tartars, Thomas de Quincey (August 15, 1785 – December 8, 1859) was an English author and intellectual. ... Elizabeth Clementine Stedman (1810-1889) was an American writer, a sister of William E. Dodge and the mother of Edmund Clarence Stedman. ... Margaret Oliphant Oliphant (April 4, 1828 - June 25, 1897), British novelist and historical writer, daughter of Francis Wilson, was born at Wallyford, near Musselburgh, Midlothian. ...

External links

• Volumes 53-94, (1843-1863)
• A critical opinion of John Keats by J. G. Lockhart, Blackwood's (1818)
• A new selection from the Mag.'s early years