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    The Gentleman's Magazine was a monthly magazine founded in London, England, by Edward Cave in January 1731. It ran uninterrupted for almost 200 years,...
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    publisher. He coined the term "magazine" for a periodical, founding The Gentleman's Magazine in 1731, and was the first publisher to successfully fashion a...
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    usually made from velvet and/or silk. Originating in the 1850s, The Gentleman's Magazine of London, England, defined the smoking jacket as a "kind of short...
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    author and antiquary. He is remembered as an influential editor of the Gentleman's Magazine for nearly 40 years; author of a monumental county history of Leicestershire;...
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  • poet who wrote in English. She was notable as a correspondent for The Gentleman's Magazine. Jane was born in 1685, the daughter of Thomas Hughes of Bryn Gruffydd...
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    traditionally associated with Shrove Tuesday. A contributor to The Gentleman's Magazine in 1737, during an anti-Gallican phase of British culture, was...
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    and Amusements of the Age." It was in direct competition with The Gentleman's Magazine, and in 1826 was absorbed into the Monthly Magazine. Soon after...
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    hunting. There were positive reviews of Crowe's book published in The Gentleman's Magazine (1819) and The Monthly Review (1820). Zoophilos, Or, Considerations...
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  • other things, lampooned other journals such as Johnson's Rambler, The Gentleman's Magazine and The London Magazine. Twelve issues were published between January...
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    University in 1851, and a professor in 1855. He published regularly in The Gentleman's Magazine. In 1860, he published the first edition of the Waldere fragments...
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    southern end used by waterskiers. A map dated 1766 by Thomas Bowen in The Gentleman's Magazine shows Scarborough Mere as "a lake called Byard's Lake". "NOSTALGIA:...
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    practised today. The earliest mention seems to be in a letter to the Gentleman's Magazine for 1790 where the writer says "At Helstone, a genteel and populus...
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    Nichols, John (1837). "The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year: Obituary". The Gentleman's Magazine. Edw. Cave, 1736-[1868]:...
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    the incident received little attention, but it was reported in The Gentleman's Magazine in June 1731: The Rebecca, Capt. Jenkins, was taken in her passage...
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  • Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex. Birch was described in The Gentleman's Magazine as "amiable, learned, and pious". He married Maria Rosara Gordon...
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  • January 1778. This is evidenced both her wedding announcement in the Gentleman's Magazine, and also by the summary of a letter now in the Nottinghamshire...
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  • by the Lisbon earthquake. It was criticised at some length in The Gentleman's Magazine, 1756 (pp. 138–139), and defended by the author in the same periodical...
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    reaction from some contemporary critics. Reviewing St John's in 1827, The Gentleman's Magazine commented "After the description of St. George's Church, Camberwell...
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    the early death of Barnes's sister Augusta at the age of five, The Gentleman's Magazine described their father as "John Barnes, esq., banker, Faringdon...
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  • Tempest. pp. 62. "The Gentleman's Magazine". The Gentleman's Magazine. 27: 247. 1747. "The Gentleman's Magazine". The Gentleman's Magazine. 267: 598. 1816...
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