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Quarterly Review
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'''''Quarterly Review''''' was a review journal started by
John Murray (publisher) 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 influence on
public opinion; in this enterprise he was seconded by
George Canning,
Robert Southey, and
Walter Scott, the more cordially that the ''Edinburgh Review'' had given offence to the latter by its criticism of "Marmion." It was founded in the Canningite
Tory interest for the defence of
Church and State, and it had
William Gifford for its first editor, while the contributors included, besides Southey and Scott, all the ablest literary celebrities on the Tory side, of which the most zealous and frequent was
John Wilson Croker.
Under Gifford, the journal consistently took the Canningite liberal-conservative position on matters of domestic and foreign policy. It opposed political reform, but it supported Catholic emancipation, the gradual abolition of slavery, and the liberalizing of trade. In a series of brilliant articles, in its pages Southey advocated a progressive philosophy of social reform.
Reflecting divisions in the Tory party itself, under its third editor,
John Gibson Lockhart, the ''Quarterly'' became less consistent in the political philosophy it espoused. While Croker continued to represent the Canningites and Peelites, the party's liberal wing, it also found a place for the more extremely conservative views of Lords Eldon and Wellington.
The ''Quarterly Review'' stopped publication in
1967.
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Category:Literary journals
References
Jonathan Cutmore, The Quarterly Review Archive [http://www.rc.umd.edu/reference/qr/]
John O. Hayden, ''The Romantic Reviewers, 1802-1824'' (Chicago: UCP, 1969)
