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    The Cornhill Magazine   (about)
    The Cornhill Magazine—UK; Jan. 1860-Spring 1975 (three consecutive series totalling 1,084 issues); Smith, Elder & Co., London (1860-1916), John Murray (1917-1975); monthly; standard format, priced 1/-, styled on Harper’s Magazine; a second series (under editor Payn, 1883-1896) saw it restyled as a 6d monthly, but it reverted to its old format in 1896; editors William Makepeace Thackeray (Jan. 1860-May 1862), editorial board of varying members, inc. George Smith, Frederick Greenwood, G. H. Lewes and Edward Dutton Cook (Jun. 1862-Mar. 1871), Leslie Stephen (Apr. 1871-Dec. 1882), James Payn (Jan. 1883-Jun. 1896), John St. Loe Strachey (Jul. 1896-Dec. 1897), Reginald Smith (Jan. 1898-Dec. 1916), Leonard Huxley (Jan. 1917-Jun. 1933); “the premier fiction-carrying magazine of the century,” it reigned supreme until toppled by The Strand and others in the 1890s; circulation peaked at circa 110,000 in the first few years, settled at about 20,000 by 1870; authors in early issues included Thackeray, Trollope, Sala, Mrs Gaskell, Thomas Hardy (“Far from the Madding Crowd,” 1874), George Eliot, Wilkie Collins (“Armadale,” 1864-1866), Charles Reade, George Meredith, Henry James; indexed, Wellesley vol.1 (1860-1900 only).


    The Cornhill Magazine [Vol. I, No. 1, January 1860] (Smith, Elder and Co., 128pp, standard) [] (Full Text)
    Details taken from an online copy at HathiTrust.
    • 1 · Framley Parsonage: Chapter I. Omnes Omnia Bona Dicere · Anthony Trollope, uncredited · sl
    • 8 · Framley Parsonage: Chapter II. The Framley Set, and the Chaldicotes Set · Anthony Trollope, uncredited · sl
    • 16 · Framley Parsonage: Chapter III. Chaldicotes · Anthony Trollope, uncredited · sl
    • 26 · The Chinese and the “Outer Barbarians” · John Bowring, uncredited · ar
    • 44 · Lovel the Widower: Chapter I. The Bachelor of Beak Street · William Makepeace Thackeray, uncredited · sl
    • 61 · Studies in Animal Life: Chapter I · George H. Lewes, uncredited · ar
    • 75 · Father Prout’s Inaugurative Ode to the Author of “Vanity Fair” · Rev Mahoney Frances, uncredited · pm
    • 77 · Our Volunteers · Sir John Burgoyne, uncredited · ar
    • 85 · A Man of Letters of the Last Generation · Thornton Hunt, uncredited · ar
    • 96 · The Search for Sir John Franklin (from the Private Journal of an Officer of the Fox) · Allen W. Young, uncredited · ar
    • 122 · The First Morning of 1860 · Caroline Clive, uncredited · pm
    • 124 · Roundabout Papers—No. I. On a Lazy Idle Boy · William Makepeace Thackeray, uncredited · cl


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