Pall Mall Gazette

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The Pall Mall Gazette

1865-1923

1865-1923

The Pall Mall Gazette

An Evening Newspaper and Review.

(London, England)

(31 October 1865 − 31 October 1923)

(1865-1923)

The Pall Mall Gazette was an evening newspaper founded in London on 7 February 1865 by George Murray Smith; its first editor was Frederick Greenwood. In 1921, The Globe merged into The Pall Mall Gazette, which itself was absorbed into The Evening Standard in 1923.

Beginning late in 1868, at least through the 1880s, a selection or digest of its contents was published as the weekly Pall Mall Budget.

London evening newspaper and review included in de Zirkoff’s bibliography of periodicals cited or mentioned by H. P. Blavatsky. (BCW 6:451).

London evening newspaper and review (BCW 9:461).

London evening newspaper and review; the bibliography lists issues from 1873 (BCW 10:429).

About the title:

The Pall Mall Gazette took the name of a fictional newspaper conceived by W. M. Thackeray. Pall Mall is a street in London where many gentlemen's clubs are located, hence Thackeray's description of this imaginary newspaper in his novel The History of Pendennis (1848–1850):

We address ourselves to the higher circles of society: we care not to disown it—The Pall Mall Gazette is written by gentlemen for gentlemen; its conductors speak to the classes in which they live and were born. The field-preacher has his journal, the radical free-thinker has his journal: why should the Gentlemen of England be unrepresented in the Press? (WP).

Pall Mall is in St James’s, central London, United Kingdom. The street takes its name from pall mall, a ball-and-mallet game often compared with croquet. The Grub Street Project: Pall Mall

Some links:

• Related pages: Quotations
• CTD article in Russian: Газета Пэлл-Мэлл
• Wikipedia: The Pall Mall Gazette
• Other resources: The British Newspaper Archive, The British Newspaper Archive

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Short description: The Pall Mall Gazette was an evening newspaper founded in London on 7 February 1865 by George Murray Smith; its first editor was Frederick Greenwood.