Pall Mall Gazette
The Pall Mall Gazette was an evening newpaper founded in London February 7 1865. It was owned by George Smith and 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.
The Pall Mall Gazette takes the name of an imaginary newpaper conceived by William Makepeace Thackeray. Pall Mall is a street in London home to many gentleman's clubs, hence Thackeray's description of his imaginary newspaper in his novel Conservative newspaper. Greenwood resigned in 1880 when the paper came under new ownership who wished the paper to support Liberal policies.
William Thomas Stead's editorship from 1883 to 1889 saw the paper cover such subjects as child prostitution, their campaign helped get the government to increase the age of consent from 13 to 16 in 1885.
Henry Crust, editor from 1892 to 1896, returned the paper to its Conservative beginnings.
A large number of well-known writers contributed to the Pall Mall Gazette over the years, for example George Bernard Shaw got his first journalistic job writing for the paper. Other contributors included Anthony Trollope, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson and Sir Spencer Walpole.
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