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'''''The Gentleman's Magazine''''' was a monthly magazine<ref>{{cite web |url=https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=gentlemans |title=The Online Books Pagepresents serial archive listings for The Gentleman's Magazine |website=onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu |editor=John Mark Ockerbloom |editor-link=John Mark Ockerbloom |access-date=20 May 2012 }}</ref> founded in [[London]], England, by [[Edward Cave]] in January 1731.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Heather A. Haveman|title=Antebellum literary culture and the evolution of American magazines|journal=Poetics|volume=32|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222571293|access-date=20 November 2015}}</ref> It ran uninterrupted for almost 200 years, until 1922. It was the first to use the term ''[[magazine]]'' (from the [[French language|French]] ''magazine'', meaning "storehouse") for a [[periodical]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Johnson|first=Samuel|title=Magazine|url=http://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/?p=5695|work=A Dictionary of the English Language|publisher=JohnsonsDictionaryOnline.com|access-date=31 July 2012}}</ref> [[Samuel Johnson]]'s first regular employment as a writer was with ''The Gentleman's Magazine''.