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in 1837 crediting the editor "whose talents as an essayist and editor have been honourably displayed". The periodical's news and social gossip was widely quoted. For example, its report regarding the nursing of Queen Victoria's
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was a literary periodical professing itself to be "A Note Book of the Sayings and Doings of Cheltenham". It quickly established a reputation as a weekly fashionable and literary paper, the
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cause. Following the death of its founder and editor for 57 years in 1890, it was taken over by his son Edward Llewellyn Davies until his death in 1898. The
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mixed social news and literary contributions and followed its editor's opinions being very partisan in the
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as was a report in 1847 of the Turkish Minister's wife arriving at Court in Court Dress rather than veiled.
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has been widely referenced in local studies publications, biographies, music and miscellaneous articles.
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Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide - An Ongoing Project
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became more a journal of news and fashion, and remained in publication until 1920. The
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Cheltenham Spa and the Berkeleys, 1832-1848:Pocket Borough and Patrol?
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The Musical Times, Vol. 45, No. 733 (Mar. 1, 1904), pp. 165-168
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Defunct literary magazines published in the United Kingdom
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Printing Works were also employed for local publications.
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was a social and literary weekly periodical published in
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Index

Cheltenham
Henry Davies
Montpellier Spa
Gentleman's Magazine
daughter
New Zealand
Conservative
British Newspaper Archive
Gentleman's Magazine March 1837
"New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator, Volume 10, Issue 52, 10 April 1841, Page 3"
Archived
"New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume III, Issue 223, 18 September 1847, Page 3"
Archived
"Adrian Courtney Cheltenham Spa and the Berkeleys, 1832-1848:Pocket Borough and Patrol?"
Archived
"Eminent Cheltonians Commemorated at Leckhampton"
The Other Alstone
Archived
Wayback Machine
"Wellcome Library Summers Higgins"
Archived
"Paul P. Reuben Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide - An Ongoing Project Chapter 8: Dion Boucicault (1820-1890)"
Archived
"Glos Folk Resource Information"
Archived
Guardian Newspapers Pioneers and Packets 2 May 2003
"Digitised copies of the Cheltenham Looker-On"
Archived
"Cheltenham Local and Family History Society"
Archived

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