Athenaeum (magazine)

The Athenaeum was a literary magazine published in London from 1828 to 1921. It had a reputation for publishing the very best writers of the age.

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London - 1828 - 1921

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In 1828 Frederick Maurice and John Sterling bought the magazine from James Silk Buckingham but they could not make it profitable. In 1829 Charles Wentworth Dilke became part proprietor and editor. He greatly extended the influence of the magazine. In 1846 he resigned the editorship, and assumed that of The Daily News, but contributed a series of notable articles to Athenaeum

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1828 - Frederick Maurice - John Sterling - James Silk Buckingham - Charles Wentworth Dilke - The Daily News

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George Darley was a staff critic in the early years.

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Theodore Watts-Dunton contributed regularly as the principal critic of poetry from 1875 until 1898.

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1875 - 1898

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Frederic George Stephens was art editor from 1851 until 1901, when he was replaced by Roger Fry because of his unfashionable hatred of Impressionism.

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Frederic George Stephens - Roger Fry - Impressionism

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Arthur Symons joined the staff in 1891.

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In the nineteenth century it received contributions from Lord Kelvin.

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Nineteenth century - Lord Kelvin

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In the early twentieth century, its contributors included Max Beerbohm, Edmund Blunden, T. S. Eliot, Robert Graves, Thomas Hardy, Edith Sitwell, Julian Huxley, Katherine Mansfield, and Virginia Woolf.

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Max Beerbohm - Edmund Blunden - T. S. Eliot - Robert Graves - Thomas Hardy - Edith Sitwell - Julian Huxley - Katherine Mansfield - Virginia Woolf

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On other grounds, the magazine's place in the history of sports writing is assured. A letter from J S Cotton, reportedly printed in 1905, definitively tells of the first-ever reference to Cricket in India.

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In 1921, with falling circulation, the Athenaeum was incorporated into its younger competitor: the Nation. In 1930, the Nation merged with the New Statesman.

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Nation - New Statesman

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