The Leader (English newspaper)
The Leader was a radical weekly newspaper, published in London from 1850 to 1860 at a price of 6d.
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[edit] Founders
George Henry Lewes and Thornton Leigh Hunt founded The Leader in 1850. They had financial backing from Edmund Larken, who was an unconventional clergyman looking for a vehicle for "Christian liberal" views.[1] Others involved were George Dawson and Richard Congreve.[2] After a year Larken and Holyoake took over the rest of the shares.[3]
[edit] Contributors
Lewes contributed theatre criticism under the pseudonym 'Vivian'. Later editors appear to have included Edward Frederick Smyth Pigott (proprietor from the end of 1851 to 1860)[3] and Frederick Guest Tomlins. Contributors included Thomas Spencer Baynes,[4] Wilkie Collins,[5] George Eliot, Andrew Halliday, the future theatre manager John Hollingshead (1827-1904), the future politician James Mackenzie Maclean (1835-1906), the future anthropologist John McLennan, Gerald Massey, the art critic Henry Merritt (1822-1877), Edmund Ollier (1826-1886), Herbert Spencer, and the political journalist Edward Michael Whitty (1827-1860). The paper carried correspondence from William Edward Forster (proposing state farms and workshops) and Barbara Bodichon (on prostitution).
[edit] References
- ^ Rosemary Ashton, G. H. Lewes: An unconventional Victorian (2000), pp. 88–9.
- ^ Edward Royle, Victorian Infidels: the origins of the British secularist movement, 1791-1866 (1974), p. 154; Google Books.
- ^ a b The Carlyle Letters, TC to Joseph Neuburg; 2 February 1852; footnote 2. DOI: 10.1215/lt-18520202-TC-JN-01; CL 27: 25-28.
- ^ ONDB
- ^ e.g. Wilkie Collins, 'A Plea for Sunday Reform', The Leader, 27 September 1851. For identification of other contributions by Collins, see Kirk Beetz, Victorian Periodicals Review 15:1, Spring 1982, pp. 20-29
[edit] External links
- Shapshot:Leader at nineteenth-century serials edition
- Laurel Brake, '‘Town and Country’? : the Northern Star, the Leader and multiple editions'
- The complete run of the Leader is available at the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (NCSE)
- The Leader (1850-1859) (NCSE)
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