Peter Anthony Motteux

author, playwright, and translator

1663 CE to 1718 CE

Peter Anthony Motteux (25 February 1663 – 18 February 1718), born Pierre Antoine Motteux, is an English author, playwright, and translator.

Motteux is a significant figure in the evolution of English journalism in his era, as the publisher and editor of The Gentleman's Journal, "the first English magazine," from 1692 to 1694.

(Jackson, Mason.

The Pictorial Press: Its Origin and Progress.

London, Hurst and Blackett, 1885.)

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