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 Cover of the March 1837 issue | |
| Editor | William Harrison Ainsworth (1839–1868) |
|---|---|
| Former editors | Charles "Boz" Dickens (1836–1838) |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Publisher | Richard Bentley |
| Founder | Richard Bentley |
| First issue | 1836; 189 years ago (1836) |
| Final issue | 1868 (1868) |
| Country | England |
| Based in | London |
| Language | English |
| ISSN | 1751-8466 |
| OCLC | 889228102 |
Bentley's Miscellany was an Englishliterary magazine started byRichard Bentley. It was published between 1836 and 1868.
Already a successful publisher ofnovels, Bentley began the journal in 1836 and invitedCharles Dickens to be its firsteditor.[1] Dickens serialised his second novelOliver Twist, but soon fell out with Bentley over editorial control, calling him a "Burlington Street Brigand". He resigned as editor in 1839 andWilliam Harrison Ainsworth took over. Ainsworth would also only stay in the job for three years, but bought the magazine from Bentley a decade later. In 1868 Ainsworth sold the magazine back to Bentley, who merged it with theTemple Bar Magazine.
Aside from the works of Dickens and Ainsworth other significant authors published in the magazine included:Wilkie Collins,Catharine Sedgwick,Richard Brinsley Peake,Thomas Moore,Thomas Love Peacock,William Mudford,Mrs Henry Wood,Charles Robert Forrester (sometimes under the pseudonym Hal Willis),Frances Minto Elliot,Isabella Frances Romer,The Ingoldsby Legends and some ofEdgar Allan Poe's short stories. It published drawings by thecaricaturistGeorge Cruikshank, and was the first publication to publish cartoons byJohn Leech, who became a prominentPunch cartoonist.
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