ABSTRACT
First published in The Literary Examiner, I, 5 July 1823, pp. 1–6. The Literary Examiner: consisting of the Indicator, a review of books, and miscellaneous pieces in prose and verse was published weekly from 5 July 1823 to 27 December 1823. It was founded by Leigh Hunt’s brother John and edited by John’s son Henry Leigh Hunt. John first proposed the idea to Leigh in February 1823, when The Liberal was losing money and its future increasingly in doubt (see above headnote, p. 6). His idea was that the new periodical would return the Hunt brothers to a format and weekly medium that had brought success in the past, for The Literary Examiner would act as ‘a companion to the Examiner’ and allow Leigh to recommence his popular Indicator series (Marshall, pp. 165–6). In April, the brothers finished producing the third issue of The Liberal, and then directed their energies toward the new publication, which was announced in The Examiner on 29 June, and published for the first time a week later.
