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In 1823 William Hazlitt wrote:
Who with the Gentleman’s Magazine held carelessly in his hand, has notpassed minutes, hours, days, in lackadaisical triumph over ennui? Who has not taken it up in parlour window seats? Who has not ran [sic] it slightly through in reading rooms?1
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Charles Henry Timperley, A Dictionary of Printers and Printing (London, 1839), fn., p. 832. See ODNB for supposed super-centenarian Parr (1483–1635).
William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, ed. J.I.M. Stewart (Harmondsworth, 1968), p. 278.
Kathryn Shevelow, Women and Print Culture: The Construction of Femininity in the Early Periodical (London, 1989).
Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from their Originals, and Illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples from the Best Writers: To which are Prefixed, a History of the Language, and an English Grammar (London, 1755).
Penelope J. Corfield, ‘Class by Name and Number in Eighteenth-Century Britain’, History, 72 (1987), pp. 38–61, Power and the Professions in Britain, 1700–1850 (London, 1995) and ‘The Rivals: Landed and Other Gentlemen’, in Land and Society in Britain, 1700–1914, ed. Negley Harte and Roland Quinault (Manchester, 1996), pp. 1–33; Henry R. French, The Middle Sort of People in Provincial England 1600–1750 (Oxford, 2007); Margaret R. Hunt, The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680–1780 (Berkeley, CA, 1996); Paul Langford, A Polite and Commercial People: England 1727–83 (Oxford, 1998, 1st published 1989).
Shawn L. Maurer, Proposing Men: Dialectics of Gender and Class in the Eighteenth–Century Periodical (Stanford, CA, 1998), p. 3.
For the British Enlightenment see Roy Porter, Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World (London, 2000).
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (revised edition, 1991, 1st published London, 1983).
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Williamson, G. (2016). Introduction. In: British Masculinity in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1731 to 1815. Genders and Sexualities in History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137542335_1
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