The Pall Mall Gazette was an evening newspaper founded in London London is a leading global city being the world's largest financial centre alongside New York City, and has the largest city GDP in Europe. Central London is home to the headquarters of most of the UK's top 100 listed companies and more than 100 of Europe's 500 largest. London's influence in politics, finance, education, entertainment, media, on 7 February 1865. It was owned by George Murray Smith; its first editor was Frederick Greenwood. In 1921 The Globe merged into the Pall Mall Gazette, which itself was absorbed into the Evening Standard The Evening Standard is a free local daily newspaper, published Monday-Friday in tabloid format in London, England. It is the dominant regional evening paper for London and the southeast of England, with coverage of national and international news and a strong emphasis on City of London finance. In October 2009 the paper ended a 180-year history in 1923.
The Pall Mall Gazette took the name of a fictional newspaper conceived by William Makepeace Thackeray William Makepeace Thackeray was an English novelist of the 19th century. He was famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society. Pall Mall Pall Mall is a street in the City of Westminster, London, situated in SW1 and parallel to The Mall, from St. James's Street across Waterloo Place to the Haymarket; while Pall Mall East continues into Trafalgar Square. The street is a major thoroughfare in the St James's area of London, and a section of the regional A4 road. The name of the street is a street in London where many Gentlemen's clubs A gentlemen's club is a members-only private club of a type originally set up by and for English upper class men in the eighteenth century, and popularised by English upper-middle class men and women in the late nineteenth century. Today, some are more open about the gender and social status of members. Many countries outside the United Kingdom are located, hence Thackeray's description of his imaginary newspaper in his novel The History of Pendennis (1848–1850):
"We address ourselves to the higher circles of society: we care not to disown it-the Pall Mall Gazette is written by gentlemen for gentlemen; its conductors speak to the classes in which they live and were born. The field-preacher has his journal, the radical free-thinker has his journal: why should the Gentlemen of England be unrepresented in the Press?
Under the ownership of George Smith from 1865 to 1880, with Frederick Greenwood as editor, the Pall Mall Gazette was a Conservative Conservatism is a political and social philosophy that promotes the maintenance of traditional institutions and opposes rapid change in society. Some conservatives seek to preserve things as they are, emphasizing stability and continuity, while others oppose modernism and seek a return to "the way things were." The first established use newspaper. Greenwood resigned in 1880 when the paper came under new ownership who wished the paper to support the policies of the Liberal Party The Liberal Party was one of the two major British political parties from the mid 19th century until the rise of the Labour Party in the 1920s, and a third party of varying strength and importance up to 1988, when it merged with the Social Democratic Party to form a new party which would become known as the Liberal Democrats.
William Thomas Stead William Thomas Stead was an English journalist. He was born in Darlington, the son of a Congregational minister's editorship from 1883 to 1889 saw the paper cover such subjects as child prostitution; their campaign helped get the government to increase the age of consent from 12 to 16 in 1885.
Henry Cust, editor from 1892 to 1896, returned the paper to its Conservative beginnings.
A large number of well-known writers contributed to the Pall Mall Gazette over the years. George Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60 plays. Nearly all his writings deal sternly with prevailing social problems, but have a vein of comedy gained his first job in journalism writing for the paper. Other contributors have included Anthony Trollope Anthony Trollope was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of his best-loved works, collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. He also wrote penetrating novels on political, social, and gender issues, and on other topical, Frederick Engels Friedrich Engels was a German social scientist, author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of communist theory, alongside Karl Marx. Together they produced The Communist Manifesto in 1848. Engels also edited the second and third volumes of Das Kapital after Marx's death, Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer, poet, and prominent aesthete. His parents were successful Dublin intellectuals, and from an early age he was tutored at home, where he showed his intelligence, becoming fluent in French and German. He attended boarding school for six years, then matriculated to university at seventeen years, Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. Stevenson has been greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Marcel Schwob, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G. K. Chesterton, who said of him that he "seemed to pick the right word up on the, Sir Spencer Walpole, Arthur Patchett Martin[1] and the once popular Jamaican-born writer E. S. Dallas E.S. Dallas was the elder son of John Dallas of Jamaica, a planter of Scottish parentage, and his wife Elizabeth , the daughter of the Rev. Angus McIntosh of Tain and sister of Rev. Caldor McIntosh. He was born in the island of Jamaica in 1828 and was brought to England when four years of age. He was educated at the Edinburgh University, where he.
The Pall Mall Gazette is referred to several times in Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL was a Scottish physician and writer, most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories,'s Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by Scottish author and physician, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based "consulting detective", Holmes is famous for his astute logical reasoning, his ability to take almost any disguise, and his forensic science skills to solve difficult cases stories. Doyle was an ardent realist, constantly making references to Victorian popular society; Watson would often enter the home of Holmes to disturb him reading a copy of the Pall Mall Gazette.
The Pall Mall Gazette is referred to in HG Wells Herbert George Wells was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary. Together with Jules Verne, Wells has been referred to as "The Father of Science Fiction"' The Time Machine The Time Machine is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1895 and later directly adapted into at least two feature films of the same name, as well as two television versions, and a large number of comic book adaptations. It indirectly inspired many more works of fiction in all media. This 32,000 word novella is generally. When the Time Traveler returns back to London London is a leading global city being the world's largest financial centre alongside New York City, and has the largest city GDP in Europe. Central London is home to the headquarters of most of the UK's top 100 listed companies and more than 100 of Europe's 500 largest. London's influence in politics, finance, education, entertainment, media, he sees that day's copy of the Pall Mall Gazette and knows he is back at the original day he departed.
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Owners and editors of the Pall Mall Gazette
- Owner: George Smith
- 1865-1880 Frederick Greenwood
- Owner:
- Owner: William Waldorf Astor
- 1892-1896 Henry Cust
- 1896-1909 Douglas Straight[2]
- 1900 - 1905 George Roland Halkett
- 1908/9-1912 Frederick James Higginbottom
- 1912-1915 James Louis Garvin
- Owner: Cyril Arthur Pearson, from 1916 to 1923[3]
See also
- List of newspapers in the United Kingdom Traditionally, UK newspapers could be split into more serious-minded newspapers, usually referred to as the broadsheets due to their large size, and sometimes known collectively as "the quality press", and less serious newspapers, generally known as tabloids, and collectively as "the popular press", which have tended to focus
- Eneas Sweetland Dallas
References
- ^ Martin, Arthur Patchett (1851 - 1902) at the Australian Dictionary of Biography
- ^ Douglas Straight at Probert encyclopaedia
- ^ The Astors media dynasty
- John Scott (1950), The Story of the Pall Mall Gazette, of its first editor Frederick Greenwood and of its Founder George Murray Smith
- Raymond Schultz (1972), Crusader in Babylon: WT Stead and the Pall Mall Gazette
External links
Categories: 19th-century publications | Defunct newspapers of the United Kingdom | Publications established in 1865 | Publications disestablished in 1923
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