- The Month
Infobox Magazine
title = "The Month"
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editor =Frances Margaret Taylor (first)
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frequency = monthly (sometimes with double issues Jul./Aug. and Nov./Dec.); bimonthly 1941-1946.
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category = Religion, Social issues, Literature, Culture
company = Month Publications (1960-2001)
publisher = English Province of the Society of Jesus
firstdate = 1864
country =England
language = English
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issn = 0027-0172"The Month" was a monthly review, published from 1864 to 2001, which for almost all of its history was owned by the English Province of the
Society of Jesus and edited by its members.History
"The Month", founded and edited by
Frances Margaret Taylor , began publication in July 1864 with the subtitle "An illustrated magazine of literature, science and art". In April 1865 she sold the review to the Jesuits, who changed the subtitle to "A magazine and review" (1865-1873). The first Jesuit-appointed editor wasHenry James Coleridge , who managed to elicit contributions from many of the leading figures in English Catholicism, includingCardinal Newman , whose "Dream of Gerontius" was first published in "The Month". [Geoffrey Holt, “Coleridge, Henry James (1822–1893),” in "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5881 Online edition] , ed. Lawrence Goldman, May 2007. Accessed January 4, 2008.] The publisher throughout these years was Simpkin, Marshall & Co. In 1874 the "Catholic Review" was incorporated, and the title became "The Month and Catholic Review".The years 1881-1882 saw the arrival of a new editor, Richard Frederick Clarke; a new publisher,
Burns & Oates (until 1912); and the simplification of the title to "The Month".The review languished somewhat in the first half of the 20th century, and publication was reduced to bimonthly in the years 1941-1946, but it revived under the editorship (1948-1963) of
Philip Caraman , who "changed the print, the layout, the cover design, and anything else that enhanced the quality of the magazine. He employed distinguished writers, such asEvelyn Waugh ,Graham Greene ,Edith Sitwell ,Muriel Spark , and the American Trappist monk,Thomas Merton ." [George Russo, reviewing June Rockett, "A Gentle Jesuit: Philip Caraman SJ" (Gracewing, 2004), in "AD2000" 18:4 (2005), p. 18. [http://www.ad2000.com.au/articles/2005/may2005p18_1951.html Available online] . Accessed 4 January 2007.]In 1969 "The Month" absorbed the "Dublin Review", and at some point about that time the full title became "The Month: A Review of Christian Thought and World Affairs".
From 1912 to 1960 the review was published by Longmans, Green, & Co. and thereafter by Month Publications.
Publication ceased in 2001.
List of editors
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Frances Margaret Taylor , 1864-1865
*Henry James Coleridge , 1865–1881
*Richard Frederick Clarke, 1882-1894
*John Gerard, 1894-1897
*Sydney Fenn Smith, 1897-1901
*John Gerard, 1901-1912
*Joseph Keating, 1912-1939
*John Murray, 1939-1948
*Philip Caraman , 1948-1963
*Ronald Moffat, 1963-1967
*Peter Hebblethwaite , 1967-1974
*Michael Walsh, 1974-1975
*Hugh Kay, 1976-? [List largely derived from [http://www.philsp.com/data/data209.html Galactic Central] ]
*John McDade, 1986-1995
*Murray Hill, 1995-2001Notes
External links
*CathEncy
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title = Periodical Literature (England)
author = A. Hilliard Atteridge
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accessdate = 2008-01-04
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