ABSTRACT
The SATIRIST; or, Monthly Meteor was a London monthly that published fourteen volumes between 1807 and 1814; at one time edited by George Manners (1778–1853), it was bought in 1812 by William Jerdan (later owner-editor of the Literary Gazette, q.v.). Though severe by title and policy, the Satirist was conducted with more wit and sense than many of its rivals. Especially refreshing is its self-mocking humor, which contrasts sharply with pompous and/or pious pontifications of so many other journals of the period. The Satirist, like the Scourge (q.v.), contained political cartoons by George Cruikshank.
