1. John Almon, The New Foundling Hospital for Wit. Being a Collection of Several Curious Pieces, In Verse and Prose, second edition (London, 1768), 128.
2. Ralph Heathcote, Sylva; or, The Wood: Being a Collection of Anecdotes, Dissertations, Characters, Apothegms, Original Letters, Bons Mots, and Other Little Things By a Society of the Learned (London, 1786), vii.
3. Prospectus of A New Miscellany, To Be Entitled The Monthly Magazine; Or, British Register (1796), 2. For an analysis of The Monthly as ambiguously orientated toward both eighteenth- and nineteenth-century modes of thought, see Felicity James, “Writing in Dissent: Coleridge and the Poetry of the Monthly Magazine,” Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century 3 (2006): 1–21.
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4. Reprinted in PMLA 119 (2004), 118. Adriana Craciun, “Mary Robinson, the Monthly Magazine, and the Free Press”, in Romantic Periodicals and Print Culture, ed. Kim Wheatley (London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 2003), 19–40, discusses the centrality Robinson assigns to the periodical press in her prose works of the 1790s.
5. Michael Scrivener, Poetry and Reform Periodical Verse from the English Democratic Press, 1792–1824 (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1992), 131. As Klancher points out, however, after 1800, the Monthly Magazine “would shed its ‘republicanism’ like a fustian coat” (Reading Audiences, 41).