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London Journal

James Boswell's London Journal is a published version of the daily journal he kept between the years 1762 and 1763 while in London.



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The Literary London Society

The current editor of the The Literary London Journal is Susan Alice Fischer from Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York.

Three-volume novel

Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (1889), Chapter XII ("The London Journal duke always has his “little place” at Maidenhead; and the heroine of the three-volume novel always dines there when she goes out on the spree with somebody else’s husband.").

William Duncombe

Duncombe published in both the Whitehall Evening Post and the London Journal. Alexander Pope satirized the London Journal by name in The Dunciad, and Duncombe had written a letter to it criticizing John Gay's The Beggar's Opera for its vitiating effects on public morals.