Author : Ralph Griffiths
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Book Synopsis The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal by : Ralph Griffiths
Download or read book The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal written by Ralph Griffiths and published by . This book was released on 1788 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A monthly book announcement and review journal. Considered to be the first periodical in England to offer reviews. In each issue the longer reviews are in the front section followed by short reviews of lesser works. It featured the novelist and poet Oliver Goldsmith as an early contributor. Griffiths himself, and likely his wife Isabella Griffiths, contributed review articles to the periodical. Later contributors included Dr. Charles Burney, John Cleland, Theophilus Cibber, James Grainger, Anna Letitia Barbauld, Elizabeth Moody, and Tobias Smollet.