1996 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Bright, Broken Maginn
Author : Dennis Griffiths
Published in: Plant Here The Standard
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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During the formative years of The Standard, two writers more than any others stood out: Dr William Maginn and Alaric Alexander Watts. ‘Bright, broken Maginn’ is immortalised by Thackeray as the Captain Shandon of Pendennis; and, at the end of the nineteenth century, there was a messenger named Jensen who could remember as a small boy daily bringing Maginn’s articles from Fleet Prison to the paper’s offices in Shoe Lane.