Cornhill Magazine

Literary/ Cultural Context Essay

Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi (Bath Spa University College)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Kerry Myler (Newman University), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

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Date of occurrence 1860-1975

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The Cornhill Magazine was a highly influential, commercially successful, literary periodical. Founded as a monthly magazine in 1860 by the publishing firm of Smith, Elder & Company, its shilling price was far below the 2s.6d. charged for the old monthlies like Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. Its enormous initial success facilitated a boom in shilling monthly magazines in the second half of the nineteenth century. The sensation it created is evident in one of Athenaeum's advertisements of 7 January 1860: “It is almost impossible to imagine any further developments, either in quality or in quantity, of the periodical literature of this country, than that which is attained in the new monthly …

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Citation: Hadjiafxendi, Kyriaki. "Cornhill Magazine". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 22 May 2008 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=226, accessed 24 November 2024.]

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