The Morning Chronicle

For San Francisco newspaper of the same name, see Morning Chronicle (San Francisco).
For the Australian newspaper once known by the same name, see The Australasian Chronicle.

The Morning Chronicle was a newspaper founded in 1769 in London.[1] It was notable for having been the first steady employer of essayist William Hazlitt as a political reporter[2] and the first steady employer of Charles Dickens as a journalist.[3] It was the first newspaper to employ a salaried woman journalist, Eliza Lynn Linton;[4] for publishing the articles by Henry Mayhew that were collected and published in book format in 1851 as London Labour and the London Poor; and for publishing other major writers, such as John Stuart Mill.

The newspaper published under various owners until 1862, when its publication was suspended,[5] with two subsequent attempts at continued publication. From 28 June 1769 to March 1789 it was published under the name The Morning Chronicle, and London Advertiser. From 1789 to its final publication in 1865, it was published under the name The Morning Chronicle.[6]

  1. ^ Brake, Laurel; Demoor, Marysa, eds. (2009). "The Morning Chronicle". Dictionary of Nineteenth-century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland. pp. 426–427. ISBN 9789038213408.
  2. ^ Hazlitt was soon also writing some of its drama and art criticism and contributing miscellaneous essays. Wu, Duncan (2008). William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 144, 157–58. ISBN 978-0-19-954958-0.
  3. ^ Tomalin, Claire (2011). Charles Dickens: A Life. Penguin. ISBN 9781594203091. Charles Dickens had steady employment as a legal clerk and then was paid as a freelancer by other newspapers before he gained steady employment at The Morning Chronicle at a salary of 5 guineas per week.
  4. ^ Onslow, Barbara (2000). Women of the Press in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Macmillan. ISBN 0333683781.
  5. ^ "The Life of a London Journal. From the London Star". NY Times. 7 April 1862.
  6. ^ The Eighteenth-Century Periodical and the Theatre: 1715–1803, Auburn University