The Edinburgh Review and The Quarterly Review: Critical Culture and Polemics (1802–1830)

1. Edinburgh Review launches as a Whig quarterly

   Oct 1, 1802Labels: Edinburgh Review, Whig circle

   • Britannica
   • SciPer

2. Archibald Constable publishes the new review

   Nov 1, 1802Labels: Archibald Constable, Edinburgh Review

   • SciPer
   • Constable

3. Early circulation begins building a national audience

   Jan 1, 1803Labels: Edinburgh Review, national circulation

   • SciPer

4. Francis Jeffrey becomes long-term editor

   Apr 1, 1803Labels: Francis Jeffrey, Edinburgh Review

   • Britannica
   • Jeffrey

5. William Gifford leads the Quarterly as editor

   Jan 1, 1809Labels: William Gifford, Quarterly Review

   • Soane
   • Quarterly

6. Quarterly Review founded to counter Edinburgh influence

   Mar 1, 1809Labels: Quarterly Review, John Murray

   • Soane
   • Britannica

7. First Quarterly Review issue released in London

   Mar 1, 1809Labels: Quarterly Review, London press

   • Cambridge
   • Quarterly

8. Jeffrey’s Wordsworth review becomes a polemical flashpoint

   Nov 1, 1814Labels: Francis Jeffrey, William Wordsworth

   • New Yorker
   • Britannica

9. Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine enters the review wars

   Apr 1, 1817Labels: Blackwood's Magazine, William Blackwood

   • Blackwood

10. Edinburgh Review reaches mass circulation and prestige

    Jan 1, 1818Labels: Edinburgh Review, mass circulation

    • Britannica

11. “Cockney School” attacks widen polemical criticism

    Jan 1, 1818Labels: Cockney School, Blackwood's

    • Cockney
    • Blackwood

12. Jeffrey resigns; Napier takes over the Edinburgh Review

    Jun 1, 1829Labels: Francis Jeffrey, Macvey Napier

    • Jeffrey
    • Napier