Weekly Rehearsal
The Weekly Rehearsal or The Rehearsal (1731-1735) was a literary newspaper published in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 1730s.[1] Jeremiah Gridley served as editor and publisher (1731-1733);[2] other publishers/printers included John Draper and Thomas Fleet.[3] In 1735 it was continued by Thomas Fleet's Boston Evening Post.[4]
References
- ^ http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/18th/204.html
- ^ Lyon N. Richardson. A History of Early American Magazines, 1741-1789 (New York, 1931. Google books.
- ^ Matthews. 1907
- ^ http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/18th/137.html
Further reading
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- Isaiah Thomas, Benjamin Franklin Thomas. The history of printing in America: with a biography of printers, and an account of newspapers, Volume 1. J. Munsell, printer, 1874.
- Albert Matthews. Check-list of Boston newspapers, 1704-1780. Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1907.
- John K. Reeves. Jeremy Gridley, Editor. New England Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Jun., 1944), pp. 265-281.
- Albert Ten Eyck Gardner. A Majestick Shape: 1745. Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New Series, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Oct., 1949), pp.74-80.
- Charles E. Clark. Boston and the Nurturing of Newspapers: Dimensions of the Cradle, 1690-1741. New England Quarterly, Vol. 64, No. 2 (Jun., 1991).