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245 1 0 _aBlackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 70, No. 432, October, 1851
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
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300 _a1 online resource :
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-10-01
508 _aRichard Tonsing, Brendan OConnor, Jonathan Ingram, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _a"Blackwood''s Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 70, No. 432, October, 1851" by Various is a literary periodical written in the mid-19th century. It offers a curated mix of criticism, social and political reflection, travel writing, and serialized fiction typical of Victorian taste, including a substantial review of Arthur Helps’s essays and a new installment of “My Novel; or, Varieties in English Life.” The issue ranges across labor and sanitation reform, law and church questions, debates on slavery, urban morality, and continental affairs, while also carrying imaginative narrative. The opening of the magazine begins with a long, thoughtful critique of Mr. Helps’s works—dismissing his earliest moral essays as bland, praising his later “Companions of my Solitude,” and engaging his arguments on labor duties, public health legislation, slavery’s injustices (urging education toward gradual change), legal and church reform, and the “sin of great cities.” It then shifts to the serial “My Novel,” where Lord L’Estrange, shadowed by a lost love and resisting a dynastic match, debates purpose with his parents and with statesman Audley Egerton, muses on marriage as finding and forming a worthy soul, and fatefully encounters Leonard Fairfield and the ailing Helen. L’Estrange rescues Helen, recognizes Leonard’s talent and pride, reads his manuscripts, and offers two paths—government service or letters—leading Leonard to choose literature under the guidance of author Henry Norreys, who takes him in as an amanuensis and sets him to disciplined work. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aScotland -- Periodicals
653 _aEngland -- Periodicals
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76964
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