The Metropolitan: a monthly journal of literature, science, and the fine arts was a London

London

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 monthly journal established by Thomas Campbell in 1831.

Campbell and Cyrus Redding

Cyrus Redding

-Biography:The son of a Baptist minister, Redding was privately educated. He moved to London about 1806, and worked for the Pilot before editing the Plymouth Chronicle and then the West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser which he founded in 1810....

 were the first editors of the Metropolitan. Frederick Marryat

Frederick Marryat

Captain Frederick Marryat was an English Royal Navy officer, novelist, and a contemporary and acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story...

 became editor in 1832. From vol. 6 (1833) onwards the magazine went under the name The Metropolitan Magazine. Marryat appointed the novelist Edward Howard (1793-1841) as a sub-editor in 1833: Howard serialized his semi-autobiographical Life of a Sub-Editor in the Metropolitan in 1834. Though Marryat resigned the editorship in 1835, he kept a connection with the Metropolitan for another year.

Contributors included the poet Maria Abdy

Maria Abdy

-Early life:Maria Abdy was the daughter of Richard Smith, a solicitor, and Maria Smith, sister to James and Horace Smith. James and Horace were authors of the comedy book Rejected Addresses written in 1812. Maria Abdy was a first born child.-Marriage:...

 (c. 1800-1867), the novelist and poet Isabella Blagden (1816/17-73), Eliza Cook

Eliza Cook

Eliza Cook was an English author, Chartist poet and writer born in London Road, Southwark.- Background :...

, Antonio Gallenga, the mesmerist Spencer Timothy Hall

Spencer Timothy Hall

Spencer Timothy Hall , was an English writer and mesmerist. He was born in a cottage near Sutton in Ashfield in Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire, the son of Samuel Hall, a Quaker cobbler and Eleanor Spencer, a dairymaid...

 (1812-85), Hargrave Jennings

Hargrave Jennings

Hargrave Jennings was a British Freemason, Rosicrucian, author on occultism and esotericism, and amateur student of comparative religion.-Phallism and Phallicism:...

 (1817?-1890), the philosopher Thomas Charles Morgan

Thomas Charles Morgan

Sir Thomas Charles Morgan was an English physician and writer with an interest in philosophical and miscellaneous subject matter. His wife was the famed novelist Lady Morgan....

 (c. 1780-1843) and the poet and novelist Annie Tinsley (1808-85).

The magazine stopped publication in 1850.