Westminster Review
| Frequency | Quarterly |
|---|---|
| Founder | Jeremy Bentham |
| Year founded | 1823 |
| Final issue | 1914 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Based in | London |
| Language | English |
The Westminster Review was a quarterly British publication. Established in 1823 as the official organ of the Philosophical Radicals, it was published from 1824 to 1914. James Mill was one of the driving forces behind the liberal journal until 1828.
In 1823, the paper was founded by Jeremy Bentham. The first edition of the journal featured numerous articles by James Mill and his son John Stuart Mill which, combined, served as a provocative reprobation of a rival, more well-established journal, the Edinburgh Review.
In 1851 the journal was acquired by John Chapman based at 142 the Strand, London, a publisher who originally had medical training. The then unknown Mary Ann Evans, later better known by her pen name of George Eliot, had brought together his authors, including Francis Newman, W. R. Greg, Harriet Martineau and the young journalist Herbert Spencer who had been working and living cheaply in the offices of The Economist opposite Chapman's house. These authors met during that summer to give their support to this flagship of free thought and reform, joined by others including John Stuart Mill, the physiologist William Benjamin Carpenter, Robert Chambers and George J. Holyoake. They were later joined by Thomas Huxley, an ambitious young ship's surgeon determined to become a naturalist.
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