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1731-Feb-20 | "A View of the Weekly Essays and Controversies—Of Eating," Gentleman's Magazine; or, Monthly Intelligencer [London:1731-1735] (1731 Feb): 62-63

1731-May-13 | "Views of the Weekly Essays—English Usage of Beasts," Gentleman's Magazine; or, Monthly Intelligencer 2 (1732 May): 747-748.

1737-Jan | "An Enquiry into the Original Meaning of Cock-Throwing on Shrove-Tuesday." Gentleman's Magazine 7 (1737 Jan): 6-8.

1749-Apr | "Wonderful Speech of a Hen," Gentleman's Magazine 19 (1749 Apr): 147-148.

1750-Jan | J.S., letter to the editor, "Shrovetide Sports Condemn'd: Cruelties to Brute Creatures Detested," Gentleman's Magazine 20 (1750 Jan): 18-19.



1787-Dec | Gentleman's Magazine, review of "Familiar Essays on Interesting Subjects [1787], by a Rector of an Obscure Country Village," Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle 57 (1787-Dec): 1101.

1802-Oct | Gentleman's Magazine, "House of Commons, May 24, Second Reading of the Bill to Prevent Bull-Baiting and Bull Running," Gentleman's Magazine 92 (1802-Oct): 953-4.

1802-Oct | Gentleman's Magazine, "House of Commons, May 25, Bull-Baiting Bill," Gentleman's Magazine 92 (1802-Oct): 953-4.

1807-May | Gentleman's Magazine, review of "The Works of the Rev. Edward Barry," Gentleman's Magazine (1807-May): 433-4.

1809-Jun | Gentleman's Magazine, review of "The Speech in the House of Peers on the Second Reading of the Bill for Preventing Malicious and Wanton Cruelty to Animals [1809-May-15], Gentlemans' Magagine 27 (1809-Jul) 545-549.

1810-Jun | Gentleman's Magazine, "Proceedings in the Present Session of Parliament, House of Lords, April 17, Lord Erskine, Bill for the More Effectually Preventing Malicious and Wanton Cruelty to Animals," Gentleman's Magazine 107 (1810-Jun): 575.


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Antiquity-Middle Ages
Ancient Animal Rights Law
Early Prohibitions-Middle Ages
[BCE-3rdc.] Mythical-Divine Origin; Antiquity—Classical Literature
[3rdc.-1485] Early Church Fathers, Old-Middle English Period

Renaissance
Early Anti-Cruelty Legislation
[1485-1660] English Renaissance

Enlightenment
Articles-Letters-Enlightenment
Pleas for Laws to Protect Animals
[1660-1689] Restoration
[1689-1745] Augustan Age-Pope
[1745-1785] Age of Sensibility

Romantic Age
Articles-Letters-Romantic Age
Modern Legislative Beginnings
[1785-1798] Burns-Cowper
[1798-1806] Wordsworth
[1806-1837] Byron, Martin's Act

Victorian Age
Articles-Letters-Victorian Age
Anti-Cruelty, Anti-Vivisection Laws
[1837-1876] Early Victorian Age
[1876-1901] Late Victorian Age

Early 20th Century
Articles-Letters-Early 20th
Continuing Animal Protection Law
[1901-1914] Edwardian Age
[1914-1945] Modern Period


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[1785-1837] Romantic Age
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Scots Magazine
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