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2 unusual facts about Edinburgh Review


Charlotte Louisa Hawkins Dempster

Her first published work, "The Literary Remains of Albrecht Dürer", appeared in Edinburgh Review.

Meteorological intelligence

An early reference to "meteorological intelligence" in England dates an 1866 issue of The Edinburgh Review which was a prominent Scottish journal during the 19th century (Reeve 1866, pg. 75).


Longman

In 1814 arrangements were made with Thomas Moore for the publication of Laila Rookh, for which he was paid £3000; and when Archibald Constable failed in 1826, Longmans became the proprietors of the Edinburgh Review.

Mary Barton

The British Quarterly Review said it was a 'one-sided picture', and the Edinburgh Review that the division between employers and employed was exaggerated.

Mechanical equivalent of heat

Though Tyndall again pressed von Mayer's cause in Heat: A Mode of Motion (1863) with the publication of Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe's Edinburgh Review article Thermo-Dynamics in January 1864, Joule's reputation was sealed while that of von Mayer entered a period of obscurity.

North Briton

The North British Review was founded in 1844 by members of the Free Church of Scotland as a Scottish "national review" for those unsatisfied with the secular Edinburgh Review and the conservative Quarterly Review.

Rhyming recipe

The poem was written by Sydney Smith, an English writer and clergyman, who has been described as "a man of restless ingenuity and activity," and who is also known for being the founder of the Edinburgh Review.


see also

Stephen Phillips

See the section on Stephen Phillips in Poets of the Younger Generation, by William Archer (1902); also the articles on Tragedy and Mr Stephen Phillips, by William Watson in the Fortnightly Review (March 1898); The Poetry of Mr Stephen Phillips, in the Edinburgh Review (January 1900); Mr Stephen Phillips, in the Century (January 1901), by Edmund Gosse; and Mr Stephen Phillips, in the Quarterly Review (April 1902), by Arthur Symons.