The Star (London)

The Star
	29 July 1831 issue
Type	Daily
Founder(s)	John Murray; William Lane
Launched	1788
Language	English
Ceased publication	1960
Headquarters	London, England
City	London
Country	England
	Media of England; List of newspapers;

The Star was a London evening newspaper founded on 3 May 1788, originally under the title Star and Evening Advertiser, and was the first daily evening newspaper in the world.[1] Founding sponsors of the new paper included publisher John Murray and William Lane of the Minerva Press.[2][3]

References

British Library: Concise History of the British Newspaper in the Eighteenth Century.
Belanger, Jacqueline; Peter Garside; Anthony Mandal; Sharon Ragaz (4 January 2003). "British Fiction, 1800–1829: A Database of Production and Reception Phase II Report: Advertisements for Novels in The Star". Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text. ISSN 1471-5988. Retrieved 23 September 2011.
"The History of The Star". thestarfictionindex.atwebpages.com. Retrieved 3 May 2021.

External links

The Star at the British Newspaper Archive

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[1] British Library: Concise History of the British Newspaper in the Eighteenth Century.

[2] Belanger, Jacqueline; Peter Garside; Anthony Mandal; Sharon Ragaz (4 January 2003). "British Fiction, 1800–1829: A Database of Production and Reception Phase II Report: Advertisements for Novels in The Star". Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text. ISSN 1471-5988. Retrieved 23 September 2011.

[3] "The History of The Star". thestarfictionindex.atwebpages.com. Retrieved 3 May 2021.