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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.
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Griffiths, D. (1996). Bright, Broken Maginn. In: Plant Here The Standard. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12461-9_5
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