From 1826 through 1835 it used the title The Monthly Magazine, or British Register of Literature, Sciences, and Belles Lettres.
[4] Other contributors included William Blake,[5] Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Dyer, Henry Neele, Charles Lamb,[4] and James Hogg.
[6] The magazine also published the earliest fiction by Charles Dickens, the first of what would become Sketches by Boz.
[7] From 1839 the magazine was for two years edited by Francis Foster Barham and John Abraham Heraud.
Its content in that period has been described by a recent American analyst as "popularizations of post-Kantian philosophy, esoteric mystical commentary, literary effusions, and idealistic calls for child-centered education and communitarian socialism.