Pall Mall Gazette
Pall Mall Gazette,an evening paper founded in 1865 by Frederick Greenwood ( 1830 – 1909 ) and George Smith to combine the features of a newspaper with the literary features of the Spectator and the Saturday Review . Its name was taken from Thackeray's Pendennis , where Captain Shandon in the Marshalsea prepares the prospectus of ‘The Pall Mall Gazette’, ‘written by gentlemen for gentlemen’. Its early contributors included Sir Henry Maine ( 1822 – 88 ), Trollope , Sir J. F. Stephen , L. Stephen , and M. Arnold (whose Friendship's Garland first appeared in it); in 1880 Smith parted with it to his Liberal son-in-law, and J. Morley took over as editor, to be succeeded ( 1883 – 9 ) by W. T. Stead , whose sensational journalism altered the character of the paper. Greenwood produced instead the newly founded Conservative St James's...
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