The Cornhill Magazine
George Murray Smith | |
First issue | 1859 |
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Final issue | 1975 |
Company |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Based in | London |
Language | English |
The Cornhill Magazine (1860–1975) was a monthly
History
The Cornhill was founded by
.The magazine was initially successful, selling more issues than expected, but within a few years circulation dropped rapidly as it failed to keep pace with changes in popular taste. It also gained a reputation for rather safe, inoffensive content in the late
From 1917 the magazine was published by John Murray of Albemarle Street, London.[1] Contributors to The Cornhill in the 1930s and 1940s included Elizabeth Bowen, Rose Macaulay, Mary Webb, D. K. Broster and Nugent Barker.[6]
Notable works published
Important works serialised in the magazine include the following:
- Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope
- Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
- The White Company and J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Alfred Tennyson
- Washington Square by Henry James
- Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold
- Romola by George Eliot
- "The Lagoon" by Joseph Conrad
- Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
- Unto This Last by John Ruskin
- Armadale by Wilkie Collins
- Emma (Posthumous Fragment) by Charlotte Brontë
- Daisy Miller by Henry James
Archives
A list of issues of the magazine available for viewing online is provided by John Mark Ockerbloom through a webserver of the University of Pennsylvania: https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=cornhill
There are transcriptions of the first six issues available on Project Gutenberg.
References
- ^ a b c "The Cornhill Magazine—The John Murray Archive—National Library of Scotland". digital.nls.uk. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
- ^ ISBN 071235039X(p. 145).
- JSTOR 20083681.
- ^
"Business Correspondence of Smith, Elder, and Co., 1850–1908: Finding Aid". Princeton University Library. 2008. Retrieved 7 July 2012.
Abstract. Consists, for the most part, of business correspondence of George Smith relating to The Cornhill Magazine, which he founded in 1859, and other publishing business of Smith, Elder, and Co., the London publishing firm.
- ^ Eddy, Spencer L. (1970). "The Founding of The Cornhill Magazine". Ball State University. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
- ISBN 978-1-55310-060-7.
Further reading
- The Cornhill Magazine. v.5 (1862); v.8 (1863); v.11 (1865); v.19 (1869); v.25 (1872); v.35 (1877).
- Cooke, Simon. Illustrated Periodicals of the 1860s. Pinner, Middlesex: ISBN 978-1-58456-275-7.
- Maunder, A. (2006). "UH Research Archive. 'Discourses of Distinction' the reception of The Cornhill Magazine 1859-60" (Document). University of Hertfordshire. hdl:2299/2269.
Citation: Maunder, A 1999, ' "Discourses of Distinction": the reception of The Cornhill Magazine 1859-60', Victorian Periodicals Review, vol 32, no. 3, pp. 239–59. Files in This Item: File: 901212.pdf Size: 6.66 MB Format: Adobe PDF
- Ockerbloom, J. M. "Serial archive listings for The Cornhill Magazine". The Online Books Page. University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
External links
- Media related to The Cornhill Magazine at Wikimedia Commons
- Issues available on Project Gutenberg