The Odoherty Papers...

by William Maginn

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The Odoherty Papers; Volumes 1-2 Of Selections; William Maginn; The Odoherty Papers; Robert Shelton Mackenzie; Volume 1 Of The Odoherty Papers By The Late William Maginn, D; William Maginn

William Maginn

Robert Shelton Mackenzie

Redfield, 1855

396 pages, Paperback

Published March 13, 2012

About the author

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.