 Nevertheless, the journal recruited several prominent writers, such as the poet William Cowper, the moralist William Enfield, the physician John Aikin and the polemicist Mary Wollstonecraft.The "Analytical Review" suspended publication in December 1798 after the deaths of Christie (1796) and Wollstonecraft (1797), the conviction of Johnson for seditious libel (1798) and the retirement of other contributing editors.The Whig "Monthly Review", founded in 1749 by Ralph Griffiths, and the Tory "Critical Review", founded in 1756 by Tobias Smollett, were the first journals dedicated to reviewing books in Britain.