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William Maginn

Born

in Cork, Ireland

July 10, 1793

Died

August 21, 1842

Genre

Fiction

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William Maginn was an Irish journalist and writer.

Maginn became a contributor to Blackwood's Magazine, and and featured as the character O'Doherty in its series 'Noctes Ambrosianæ'. After moving to London in 1824, he became for a few months in 1826 the Paris correspondent to The Representative, a paper started by John Murray, the publisher. When its short career was run, he helped to found in 1827 the ultra Tory Standard, a newspaper that he edited along with a fellow graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, Stanley Lees Giffard; he also wrote for the more scandalous Sunday paper, The Age. In 1830 he instigated and became one of the leading supporters of Fraser's Magazine. His Homeric Ballads, much praised by contemporary critics, were publishe William Maginn was an Irish journalist and writer.

Maginn became a contributor to Blackwood's Magazine, and and featured as the character O'Doherty in its series 'Noctes Ambrosianæ'. After moving to London in 1824, he became for a few months in 1826 the Paris correspondent to The Representative, a paper started by John Murray, the publisher. When its short career was run, he helped to found in 1827 the ultra Tory Standard, a newspaper that he edited along with a fellow graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, Stanley Lees Giffard; he also wrote for the more scandalous Sunday paper, The Age. In 1830 he instigated and became one of the leading supporters of Fraser's Magazine. His Homeric Ballads, much praised by contemporary critics, were published in Fraser's between 1839 and 1842.

In 1837, Bentley's Miscellany was launched, with Charles Dickens as editor, and Maginn wrote the prologue and contributed over the next several years a series of "Shakespeare Papers" that examined characters in counter-intuitive fashion (e.g., the key to Falstaff is his melancholy). From The Man in the Bell (Blackwood's, 1821) through Welch Rabbits (Bentley's, 1842) he was an occasional though skilful writer of short fiction and tales. His only novel, Whitehall (1827) pretends to be an historical novel set in 1820s England written in the year 2227; it is a droll spoof of the vogue for historical novels as well as the contemporary political scene. He also wrote The Military Sketch-Book: Reminiscences of Seventeen Years Service Abroad and at Home, "By An Officer of the Line" (anonymously) published in two volumes by Henry Colburn in 1827. Partly set in Australia and involving the capture of a notorious gang of Bushrangers.

In 1836, he fought a duel with Grantley Berkeley, a member of Parliament. Three rounds of shots were fired, but no one was struck. Berkeley had brutally assaulted magazine publisher James Fraser over a review Maginn wrote of Berkeley's novel Berkeley Castle, and Maginn had called him out. ...more

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	The Man in the Bell 3.25 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1821 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Shakespeare Papers of the Late William Maginn, LL.D. by William Maginn, Robert Shelton Mackenzie (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009 — 46 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fraserian Papers of the Late William Maginn, Ll. D.: Annotated, With a Life of the Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Red Barn: A Tale, Founded On Fact 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Military Sketch-Book, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint): Reminiscences of Seventeen Years in the Service Abroad and at Home 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Military Sketch-Book, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint): Reminiscences of Seventeen Years in the Service Abroad and at Home 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Odoherty Papers by William Maginn, Robert Shelton Mackenzie 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Military Sketch-book: Reminiscences of Seventeen Years in the Service Abroad and at Home by William Maginn, An Office of the Line (Creator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	John Manesty, the Liverpool Merchant Volume 2 by William Maginn, George Cruikshank 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Miscellaneous Writings of the Late Dr. Maginn, Volume 5 by William Maginn, Robert Shelton Mackenzie 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Mr. Maclean, the secretary of the Central Board of Health, on hearing that there was to be so large an assemblage of pure Scotchmen at the Freemason's, called upon Cuff, and told him it was his duty to guard againt all chances of infection. Mr. Cuff was directed to wash the walls thoroughly with chloride of lime, both before and after the meeting. The hall has, we are informed, undergone a complete fumegation, so that there is no cause to fear that ill consequences will arise from the circumstance of so extensive a body of our fellow-countrymen having met together.”
― William Maginn, Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Volume 5

tags: 1832, chloride-of-lime, cholera, fumegation, london, scotsmen

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