ABSTRACT
The THEOLOGICAL INQUIRER; or, Polemical Magazine; being a General Medium of Communication on Religion, Metaphysics, and Moral Philosophy was a London monthly that ran from March through September 1815. In “Erasmus Perkins and Shelley” (MLN, LXX, June 1955, 408–413), Louise Schutz Boas has shown that the reputed editor “Erasmus Perkins” was actually one George Cannon, a radical whose real name was finally revealed by fellow radical journalist Richard Carlile in 1826, probably after Cannon was dead. She also identifies this man with a man named Cannon whom Shelley knew in 1815, and with whose periodical he apparently cooperated, though he despised Cannon personally.
