The Hyp-Doctor
Founder(s)Richard Steele[1]
Founded15 December 1730
Ceased publication1741[2]

The Hyp-Doctor was an 18th-century weekly paper edited and produced by John 'Orator Henley'.[3] It was a pro-Walpole newspaper established in opposition to another periodical of the period, entitled the Craftsman.

The first number of The Hyp-Doctor appeared on 15 December 1730,[4] and it ceased publication in 1741.

References

  1. ↑ Sir Richard Steele (1897). Selections from the Works of Sir Richard Steele. Ginn. pp. 14–.
  2. ↑ Alexander Pope (1999). The Dunciad: In Four Books. Longman. ISBN 978-0-582-08924-2.
  3. ↑ Paddy Bullard (24 July 2019). The Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-Century Satire. Oxford University Press. pp. 31–. ISBN 978-0-19-872783-5.
  4. ↑ Sylvanus Urban (pseud. van Edward Cave.) (1856). Gentleman's Magazine, Or Monthly Intelligencer. Edward Cave. pp. 5–.


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