The
Edinburgh Review, a quarterly magazine, was founded in October,
1802 by Francis Jeffrey, Sydney Smith and Henry
Brougham. The owners of the journal favoured the Whigs
in Parliament and most of the writers for the journal such as William
Hazlitt and Thomas Babington Macaulay
tended to favour political reform. Walter Scott,
an early contributor, eventually refused to send in articles because
he found the journal was in conflict with his Tory
views.
The Edinburgh Review was the most influential magazine of its
day and by 1818 circulation had reached 13,500. Francis Jeffrey, the
editor between 1802 and 1829 was an outspoken critic of certain writers
such as William Wordsworth and Samuel
Coleridge. An article written by Henry
Brougham that attacked the work of Lord Byron
resulted in the writer replying with the poem English Bards and
Scotch Reviewers.
Henry Reeve became editor of the Edinburgh
Review in 1855, a post he was to hold for over forty years. The
Edinburgh Review ceased publication in 1929.
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