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Darwin Correspondence Project

Edward Cave

1691–1754

Printer, magazine proprietor, and editor. Worked as a printer and copywriter, and for the Post Office. Started the Gentleman’s Magazine in 1731; used the editorial pseudonym Sylvanus Urban.

Source

ODNB.

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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