The Philadelphia Magazines and their Contributors 1741-1850Smyth, Albert Henry
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The Philadelphia Magazines and their Contributors 1741-1850
Smyth, Albert Henry
American periodicals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
It was the _Dollar Magazine_, commenced January 25, 1843, that offered
the prize in June, 1843, for the best story, and, as already related,
Edgar Allan Poe entered the lists of fame, and drew the prize in the
lottery with the "Gold-Bug." Hawthorne published here, in 1851, "The
Unpardonable Sin." The publishers of the _Dollar Newspaper_ were the
publishers of the _Ledger_. When Mr. George W. Childs purchased the
_Ledger_ he bought also the _Dollar Magazine_, and changed its name to
the _Home Weekly and Household Newspaper_.
The _Occident and American Jewish Advocate_ was published monthly by
Isaac Leeser from No. 118 South Fourth Street, and was continued from
1843 to 1847.
The _Legal Intelligencer_ began December 2, 1843, and, published weekly
from that time to the present, is the oldest law journal in the United
States. It was founded by Henry E. Wallace, and has been edited by J.
Hubley Ashton, Dallas Sanders and Henry C. Titus.
Miss Eliza Leslie, sister to Charles Robert Leslie, after winning her
first literary distinction with her story, "Mrs. Washington Potts," in
_Godey's Lady's Book_, began, with the aid of T. S. Arthur, the
publication in January, 1843, of _Miss Leslie's Magazine_. In the
address of "The Publisher to the Public" the new venture is thus
introduced and commended: "_Miss Leslie's Magazine_! There is something
in the very name that foretokens a prosperous career. It is a name
associated with the pleasantest passages of our current American
literature--with the most brilliant triumphs of our most brilliant
periodicals. Who does not remember 'Mrs. Washington Potts' and that
exquisite tease, 'Old Aunt Quinby,' and the 'Miss Vanlears,' and their
pseudo-French gallant; and 'Mrs. Woodbridge,' and her economical mamma,
and the thousand other creations of Miss Leslie's admirable pencil; and
remembering these, who would not venture to predict that her magazine
must be eminently successful? _We_ know that it will be." The first
number contained contributions by T. S. Arthur, Mrs. Anna Bache, N. P.
Willis, Virginia Murray, John Bouvier, Mrs. L. H. Sigourney, Morton
McMichael and Mrs. S. C. Hall.
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