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EARLY HISTORY OF BLACKWOOD’S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE
BY
ALICE MARY DOANE
A. B. Earlham College, 1914
THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the
Degree of
MASTER OF ARTS
IN ENGLISH
IN
THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
1917
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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
June 1 1917I HEREBY RECOMMEND THAT THE THESIS PREPARED UNDER MY SUPERVISION
BY Mary Alice Doane
ENTITLED Early History of Blackwood’s Magazine
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BE ACCEPTED AS FULFILLING THIS PART OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE
DEGREE OF Master of Arts in English
Jacob Zeitlin
In Charge of Thesis
Frank W Scott
Head of Department
Recommendation concurred in:1
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1Required for doctor’s degree but not for master’s.
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Contents
| I | Introduction | p. 1-15 |
| II. | Genesis | p. 16-29 |
| III. | Dramatis Personae | p. 30-36 |
| IV. | First Years of “Maga” | p. 37-67 |
| Bibliography | p. 68-69 |
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EARLY HISTORY OF BLACKWOOD’S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE
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Introduction2
2The information in this chapter is taken from the following:Oliver Elton: A Survey of English Literature, 1780-1830(Arnold, London, 1912) V. i, ch. 13
Cambridge History of English Literature (Cambridge, 1916)V. xii, ch. 6
John Gibson Lockhart: Peter’s Letters to His Kinsfolk(Edinburgh, 1819) V. i, ii
People love to be shocked! That explains thepresent circulation of Life. It explains, too, the clamor withwhich Edinburgh received the October number of Blackwood’sEdinburgh Magazine in 1817. For the first time in periodicalhistory, the reading public was actually thrilled and completelyshocked! Edinburgh held up its hands in horror, looked pious,wagged its head