The London Mercury was the name of several periodicals published in London

London

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 from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. The earliest was a newspaper that appeared during the Exclusion Bill

Exclusion Bill

The Exclusion Crisis ran from 1678 through 1681 in the reign of Charles II of England. The Exclusion Bill sought to exclude the king's brother and heir presumptive, James, Duke of York, from the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland because he was Roman Catholic...

 crisis; it lasted only 56 issues (1682). http://www.rarenewspapers.com/viewissue.aspx?ID=120453 (Earlier periodicals had employed similar names: Mercurius Politicus, 1659; The Impartial Protestant Mercury, 1681.) Successor periodicals published as The London Mercury during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

In the twentieth century, The London Mercury was the major monthly literary journal that published from 1919

1919 in literature

The year 1919 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain return to Somerville College, Oxford, to complete their education following war service.*Two paintings by E. E...

 to 1939

1939 in literature

The year 1939 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*December 25 - A Christmas Carol is read before a radio audience for the first time....

. J.C. Squire served as editor from November 1919 to September 1934

1934 in literature

The year 1934 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* The first Flash Gordon comic strip is published.*Boris Pasternak and Korney Chukovsky are among those present at the first Congress of the Soviet Union of Writers....

; Rolfe Arnold Scott-James

Rolfe Arnold Scott-James

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 succeeded Squire as editor from October 1934 to April 1939. The monthly published a wide variety of serious contemporary literature, including poetry by Robert Frost

Robert Frost

Robert Lee Frost was an American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech. His work frequently employed settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, using them to examine complex social and...

, Robert Graves

Robert Graves

Robert von Ranke Graves 24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985 was an English poet, translator and novelist. During his long life he produced more than 140 works...

, Richmond Lattimore

Richmond Lattimore

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 , Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon

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, Conrad Aiken

Conrad Aiken

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, Hilaire Belloc

Hilaire Belloc

Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc was an Anglo-French writer and historian who became a naturalised British subject in 1902. He was one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. He was known as a writer, orator, poet, satirist, man of letters and political activist...

, and William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and playwright, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years he served as an Irish Senator for two terms...

, among many others.

The name London Mercury has also been adopted by an "independent online newspaper." http://www.londonmercury.com