William Tait

Standard Name: Tait, William

Connections

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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.

Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.

4: 475-6

Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.

4: 475-7

1840

William Tait 's Magdalenism: an Inquiry into the Extent, Causes and Consequences of Prostitution was published.

Walkowitz, Judith R. ’We Are Not Beasts of the Field’: Prostitution and the Campaign Against the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1869-1886. University of Rochester, 1974.

107

By 1841

William Tait became secretary of the EdinburghSociety for the Protection of Young Girls .

Walkowitz, Judith R. Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State. Cambridge University Press, 1980.

39-40

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.