NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Cornhill Magazine

The Cornhill Magazine was a Victorian magazine and literary journal named after Cornhill a street in London. Victorian can refer to: people from or attributes of places called Victoria (disambiguation page), including Victoria, Australia, people who lived during the British Victorian era of the 19th century, and aspects of the Victorian era, for example: Victorian architecture Victorian fashion Victorian morality Victorian literature This is a disambiguation page... A collection of magazines A magazine is a periodical publication containing a variety of articles, generally financed by advertising and/or purchase by readers. ... A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense — including the short story, poetry and essay — and also literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews, letters and gossip. ... Cornhill is one of the principal streets of the City of London, the historic nucleus of modern London. ... London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ...

Cornhill was founded by George Murray Smith in 1860 and was published until 1975. It was a literary journal with a selection of articles on diverse subjects and serialisations of new novels. Smith hoped to gain some of the same readership enjoyed by All the Year Round a similar magazine owned by Charles Dickens and he employed as editor William Thackeray, Dickens' great literary rival at the time. 1860 is the leap year starting on Sunday. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... DeFoes Robinson Crusoe, Newspaper edition published in 1719 A novel (from French nouvelle, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ... All the Year Round was a weekly magazine edited by Charles Dickens which was published between 1859 and 1859. ... Dickens was a prolific writer who was almost always working on a new instalment for a story and rarely missed a deadline. ... William Makepeace Thackeray (July 18, 1811 - December 24, 1863) was an English novelist of the 19th century. ...

The magazine was phenomenally successful selling many more issues than anyone had thought likely but within a few years circulation dropped rapidly. It also gained a reputation for rather safe, inoffensive content in the late Victorian era. A mark of the high regard in which it was held though was its publication of Leaves from the Journal of our Life in the Highlands by Queen Victoria. The stories were often illustrated and it contained works from some of the foremost artists of the time including: George Du Maurier, Edwin Landseer, Frederic Leighton, and John Everett Millais. Some of its subsequent editors included G. H. Lewes, Leslie Stephen, James Payn Peter Quennell and Leonard Huxley. Queen Victoria (shown here on the morning of her Accession to the Throne, 20 June 1837) gave her name to the historic era The Victorian era of Great Britain is considered the height of the British industrial revolution and the apex of the British Empire. ... Victoria Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria) (24 May 1819–22 January 1901) was a Queen of the United Kingdom, reigning from 20 June 1837 until her death. ... Self portrait of George du Maurier George du Maurier (March 6, 1834 - October 8, 1896) was a British author, who was born George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier in Paris, France. ... Monarch of the Glen by Sir Edwin Landseer, 1851: the image was widely distributed in steel engravings Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (March 7, 1802 - October 1, 1873) was a British painter, well known for his paintings of animals - particularly horses, dogs and stags. ... Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton (December 31, 1830 - January 25, 1896) was an English painter and sculptor. ... John Everett Millais (June 8, 1829–August 13, 1896) was a British painter and illustrator who was one of founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. ... George Henry Lewes (April 18, 1817 â€“ November 28, 1878) was a British philosopher and literary critic. ... Sir Leslie Stephen (November 28, 1832 â€“ February 22, 1904) was an English author and critic, the father of two famous daughters, Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell. ... Caricature from Punch, 10 December 1881 James Payn (February 28, 1830 - March 25, 1898), English novelist, was born at Cheltenham, his father being clerk to the Thames Commissioners and treasurer to the county of Berkshire. ... Peter Quennell (March 9, 1905, Bickley, Kent (now in Greater London), England - October 27, 1993, London) was an English biographer, literary historian, editor, essayist, poet, and critic. ... Leonard Huxley (1860 - 1933) was a British writer and editor. ...

Categories: Literary magazines of the United Kingdom | British magazines Framley Parsonage is the fourth of Anthony Trollopes Barsetshire series of novels, and was first published in serial form in the Cornhill Magazine in 1860. ... Anthony Trollope (April 24, 1815 â€“ December 6, 1882) was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. ... Wives and Daughters is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in the Cornhill Magazine as a serial from August 1864 to January 1866. ... Elizabeth Gaskell Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (September 29, 1810, London â€“ November 12, 1865, Holybourne, Hampshire, England, UK), often referred to simply as Mrs Gaskell, was a British novelist. ... The White Company, by Arthur Conan Doyle is a historical adventure set during the [Hundred Years War]. The White Company is set in the late 14th, mostly in England and France. ... J. Habakuk Jephsons Statement is an 1884 story by a then-young Arthur Conan Doyle, loosly based on the real mystery of the abandonment of the Mary Celeste, published anonymously in the respected Cornhill Magazine. ... Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (May 22, 1859 â€“ July 7, 1930) was a Scottish author most famously known for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction. ... The Ring and the Book is a long dramatic narrative poem of 21,000 lines by Robert Browning, published in four installments in 1868-9. ... Robert Browning Robert Browning (May 7, 1812 â€“ December 12, 1889) was an English poet and playwright. ... In Greek mythology, Tithonus was Eos lover. ... Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (August 6, 1809 - October 6, 1892) is generally regarded as one of the greatest English poets. ... Washington Square is the name of some urban parks in the United States. ... Photograph of Henry James Henry James, OM (April 15, 1843 â€“ February 28, 1916), son of Henry James Sr. ... Romola is a novel by George Eliot, deemed her greatest by many, being a deep study of life in the city of Florence from an intellectual, artistic, religious, and social point of view. ... George Eliot Mary Ann Evans, better known by the pen name George Eliot (22 November 1819 - 22 December 1880), was an English novelist. ... Far from the Madding Crowd is a novel by 19th century English novelist Thomas Hardy, published in 1874. ... For other people called Thomas Hardy, see Thomas Hardy (disambiguation) Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 â€“ 11 January 1928) was a novelist, short story writer, and poet of the naturalist movement, who delineated characters struggling against their passions and circumstances. ... Unto This Last is an essay on economy by John Ruskin, first published in December 1860 in the monthly journal Cornhill Magazine in four articles. ... Upper: Steel-plate engraving of Ruskin as a young man, made circa 1845, scanned from print made circa 1895. ...