William Tait

Standard Name: Tait, William

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Publishing Christian Isobel Johnstone
Proprietor William Tait advertised the magazine with warm praise for Johnstone's talents.
Perkins, Pamela. Women Writers and the Edinburgh Enlightenment. Rodopi, 2010.
222
As the Schoolmaster and Edinburgh it sold for a penny halfpenny, but in its next incarnation for eightpence a copy. It was...

Timeline

31 March 1832
William Tait published the first issue of Tait's Edinburgh Magazine.
1840
William Tait 's Magdalenism: an Inquiry into the Extent, Causes and Consequences of Prostitution was published.
By 1841
William Tait became secretary of the EdinburghSociety for the Protection of Young Girls .

Texts

Tait, William, and Mrs. Christian Isobel Johnstone, editors. “Modern Society, or The March of Intellect; By Miss Catherine Sinclair”. Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, Vol.
4.37
, William Tate, pp. 110-7.