Saturday Review (London)

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The Saturday Review of politics, literature, science, and art was a London weekly newspaper established by A. J. B. Beresford Hope in 1855.

The first editor was the Morning Chronicle's ex-editor John Douglas Cook (1808?–1868), and many of the earlier contributors had worked on the Chronicle. The politics of the Saturday Review was Peelite liberal Conservatism. The paper, benefitting from the recent repeal of the Stamp Act, aimed to combat the political influence of The Times. Frank Harris was editor from 1894 to 1898. The first issue appeared on 3 November, 1855.

Contributors included Lady Emilia Dilke, Anthony Trollope., H. G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw and Max Beerbohm.

The Saturday Review continued to be published until 1938.

References

• Bevington, M. M., The Saturday Review, 1855-1868: Representative Educated Opinion in Victorian England. New York: Columbia University Press, 1941.

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