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.1 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.2Frank Harris was editor from 1894 to 1898. The first issue appeared on 3 November, 1855.
The Saturday Review continued to be published until 1938.
References
^ Barbara Quinn Schmidt, ‘Cook, John Douglas (1808?–1868)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 4 Jan 2008
^ Andrews, Alexander,Chapters in the History of British Journalism, 1859, pp. 232-4
^ Fielding, K. J., 'Trollope and the Saturday Review', Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 37, No. 3 (Dec., 1982), pp. 430-442
Bevington, M. M., The Saturday Review, 1855-1868: Representative Educated Opinion in Victorian England. New York: Columbia University Press, 1941.