The Monthly Review (London)

The Monthly Review (1749–1845) was an English periodical founded by Ralph Griffiths, a Nonconformist bookseller.

The first periodical in England to offer reviews,[1] it featured the novelist and poet Oliver Goldsmith as an early contributor.

Later contributors included Dr. Charles Burney, John Cleland, Theophilus Cibber, James Grainger, Anna Letitia Barbauld, Elizabeth Moody, and Tobias Smollett—who would go on to establish the Monthly's competitor in 1756, The Critical Review.

[3] Many libraries have incorrectly cataloged the periodical as the London Monthly Review.

[4] Each issue of the Monthly was divided into two sections: longer reviews of several pages were in the front section, short reviews of lesser works were featured in the back Monthly Catalogue, divided by genre headings.