This issue of Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine continues the October 1844 number of one of Victorian Britain’s most influential and entertaining literary journals. "Maga" was known for its Tory politics, its brilliant literary criticism, its willingness to publish fiction by major authors, and its sharp commentary on European political and military affairs — all represented in this issue.
A valuable primary document for researchers of Victorian periodical culture, the political and literary controversies of the 1840s, and the intellectual climate in which mid-Victorian historical and political writing flourished.