{{Short description|English literary magazine, 1860–1975}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2014}} {{Use British English|date=November 2014}} {{Infobox Magazine |title = The Cornhill Magazine |image_file = 1862 CorhillMagazine January p1.png |image_size = |image_caption = Issue for January 1862 |editor = [[William Makepeace Thackeray]] (1860–1862) |editor_title = Editor |staff_writer = |frequency = |circulation = |category = [[Literary magazine]] |company = {{plainlist| * [[Smith, Elder & Co.]] * [[John Murray (publishing house)|John Murray]] (from 1917) }} |publisher = [[George Murray Smith]] |firstdate = 1859 |finaldate = 1975 |country = United Kingdom |based = London |language = English |website = |issn = |founder=}}
[[File:EFFIE.jpg|thumb|200px|''[[Portrait of Effie Millais]]'' by [[John Everett Millais]], 1873. She is shown holding a copy of ''The Cornhill Magazine'']]
'''''The Cornhill Magazine''''' (1860–1975) was a monthly<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://digital.nls.uk/jma/topics/publishing/cornhill.html|title=The Cornhill Magazine—The John Murray Archive—National Library of Scotland|website=digital.nls.uk|access-date=2019-05-19}}</ref> [[Victorian literature|Victorian]] [[magazine]] and [[literary journal]] named after the street address of the founding publisher [[Smith, Elder & Co.]] at 65 [[Cornhill, London|Cornhill]] in [[London]].<ref name="doncj">Laurel Brake and Marysa Demoor, ''Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland''. Ghent: Academia Press and London: British Library, 2009. {{ISBN|071235039X}} (p. 145).</ref><ref name="schmidt">{{cite journal|last1=Schmidt|first1=Barbara Quinn|title=Introduction: ''The Cornhill Magazine'': Celebrating Success|journal=Victorian Periodicals Review|date=Fall 1999|volume=32|issue=3|pages=202–208|jstor=20083681}}</ref> In the 1860s, under the editorship of [[William Makepeace Thackeray]], the paper's large circulation peaked around 110,000. Due to emerging competitors, circulation fell to 20,000 by 1870. The following year, [[Leslie Stephen]] took over as editor. When Stephen left in 1882, circulation had further fallen to 12,000. ''The Cornhill'' was purchased by [[John Murray (publishing house)|John Murray]] in 1912, and continued to publish issues until 1975.<ref name=":0" />
==History== ''The Cornhill'' was founded by [[George Murray Smith]] in 1859,<ref name = Princeton2008/> and the first issue displayed the cover date January 1860. A literary journal with articles on diverse subjects and serialisations of new [[novel]]s, it continued until 1975. Smith had hoped to gain some of the readership enjoyed by ''[[All the Year Round]]'', a similar magazine owned by [[Charles Dickens]]; toward this end, he employed as editor William Thackeray,<ref name="doncj" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dmr.bsu.edu/digital/collection/BSMngrph/id/10|title=The Founding of The Cornhill Magazine|last=Eddy|first=Spencer L.|date=1970|website=Ball State University|language=en|access-date=2019-05-19}}</ref> Dickens's great literary rival at the time. Subsequent editors included [[G. H. Lewes]], [[Leslie Stephen]], [[Ronald Barnes, 3rd Baron Gorell|Ronald Gorell Barnes]], [[James Payn]], [[Peter Quennell]] and [[Leonard Huxley (writer)|Leonard Huxley]].
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 [[Victorian era]].<ref name="doncj" /> A mark of the high regard in which it had been held was its publication of ''Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands'' by [[Victoria of the United Kingdom|Queen Victoria]]. Stories were often illustrated by pre-eminent artists of the time, including [[George du Maurier]], [[Edwin Landseer]], [[Frederic Leighton]] and [[John Everett Millais]].
From 1917 the magazine was published by [[John Murray (publishing house)|John Murray]] of [[Albemarle Street]], London.<ref name=":0" /> Contributors to ''The Cornhill'' in the 1930s and 1940s included [[Elizabeth Bowen]], [[Rose Macaulay]], [[Mary Webb]], [[D. K. Broster]] and [[Nugent Barker]].<ref>Jack Adrian, "Introduction" to ''The Ash-Tree Press Annual Macabre 2003: Ghosts at 'The Cornhill' 1931–1939'' [[Ash-Tree Press]], 2003, {{ISBN|978-1-55310-060-7}}.</ref>
[[File:1862 CorhillMagazine January.png|thumb|right|250px|Detail from issue for January 1862]]
==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]] *''[[Tithonus]]'' by [[Alfred Tennyson]] *''[[Washington Square (novel)|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 (novel)|Armadale]]'' by [[Wilkie Collins]] *''[[s:Emma (Charlotte Brontë)|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 many issues available on [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=cornhill+magazine&submit_search=Go! Project Gutenberg.]
==References== <references> <ref name = Princeton2008> {{cite web | url = http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/3r074v012 | title = Business Correspondence of Smith, Elder, and Co., 1850–1908: Finding Aid | year = 2008 | publisher = Princeton University Library | quote = 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. | access-date=7 July 2012 }}</ref> </references>
== Further reading == [[File:W. J. Linton (1812-1897) design for The Cornhill Magazine front, on a copy dated December 1945.jpg|thumbnail|[[William James Linton]]'s design of the front of ''The Cornhill Magazine'', this copy from December 1945.]] * ''The Cornhill Magazine''. [https://books.google.com/books?id=G2MJAAAAQAAJ v.5] (1862); [https://books.google.com/books?id=ymMJAAAAQAAJ v.8] (1863); [https://books.google.com/books?id=NWQJAAAAQAAJ v.11] (1865); [https://books.google.com/books?id=GzIFAAAAQAAJ v.19] (1869); [https://books.google.com/books?id=uuoLAQAAIAAJ v.25] (1872); [https://books.google.com/books?id=kbUCAAAAIAAJ v.35] (1877). * Cooke, Simon. ''Illustrated Periodicals of the 1860s''. Pinner, Middlesex: [[Private Libraries Association]], 2010 {{ISBN|978-1-58456-275-7}}. *{{cite document | title = UH Research Archive. 'Discourses of Distinction' the reception of The Cornhill Magazine 1859-60 | year = 2006 | publisher = University of Hertfordshire | hdl = 2299/2269 | quote = <small>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</small> | last1 = Maunder | first1 = A. }} *{{cite web|last1=Ockerbloom|first1=J. M.|author-link=John Mark Ockerbloom|title=Serial archive listings for The Cornhill Magazine|url=http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=cornhill|website=The Online Books Page|publisher=[[University of Pennsylvania]]|access-date=16 August 2016}}
==External links== *{{Commons category inline|The Cornhill Magazine|''The Cornhill Magazine''}} *[https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=cornhill+magazine+Vol&submit_search=Go%21 Issues available on Project Gutenberg]
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