ABSTRACT

Le BEAU MONDE, or, Literary and Fashionable Magazine (1806–1809, continued with different subtitle in 1810) was a “fashionable” monthly magazine imitating John Bell’s La Belle Assemblée, but attempting to appeal to fashionable men as well as women. This aim is evident from the use of Greek in the very first sentence of its review of Wordsworth’s Poems (1807) and, indeed, by the very fact that Wordsworth’s volumes are accorded such a long review. That Beau Monde also had the ladies in mind is clear from the translation of the Latin mottoes in the first column of the Wordsworth review. Lord Byron’s two volumes that fall within the period of the journal are reviewed as a matter of course because of his social standing.