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The Cornhill Magazine was a Victorian
Victorian literature

Victorian literature is the literature produced during the reign of Victoria of the United Kingdom and corresponds to the Victorian era. It forms a link and transition between the writers of the Romanticism period and the very different literature of the 20th century....
 magazine
Magazine

for quarterly in Heraldry see Quartering Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of Article , generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscription, or all three....
 and literary journal named after Cornhill Street in London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
.

Cornhill was founded by George Murray Smith
George Murray Smith

George Murray Smith was the son of George Smith who with Alexander Elder started the Victorian publishing firm of Smith, Elder & Co..The firm was extremely successful....
 in 1860 and was published until 1975. It was a literary journal with a selection of articles on diverse subjects and serialisations of new novel
Novel

File:2009 stapelweise Neuerscheinungen im Buchladen.JPGA novel is today a long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern Romance and in the tradition of the novella....
s. Smith hoped to gain some of the same readership enjoyed by All the Year Round
All the Year Round

All the Year Round was a Victorian literature periodical, being a United Kingdom weekly literary magazine founded and owned by Charles Dickens, published between 1859 and 1895 throughout the United Kingdom....
, a similar magazine owned by Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens, Royal Society of Arts , pen-name "Boz", was the most popular English people novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous Reform movement....
, and he employed as editor William Thackeray, Dickens' great literary rival at the time.

The magazine was phenomenally successful, selling many more issues than anyone had thought likely, but within a few years circulation dropped rapidly.






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The Cornhill Magazine was a Victorian
Victorian literature

Victorian literature is the literature produced during the reign of Victoria of the United Kingdom and corresponds to the Victorian era. It forms a link and transition between the writers of the Romanticism period and the very different literature of the 20th century....
 magazine
Magazine

for quarterly in Heraldry see Quartering Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of Article , generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscription, or all three....
 and literary journal named after Cornhill Street in London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
.

Cornhill was founded by George Murray Smith
George Murray Smith

George Murray Smith was the son of George Smith who with Alexander Elder started the Victorian publishing firm of Smith, Elder & Co..The firm was extremely successful....
 in 1860 and was published until 1975. It was a literary journal with a selection of articles on diverse subjects and serialisations of new novel
Novel

File:2009 stapelweise Neuerscheinungen im Buchladen.JPGA novel is today a long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern Romance and in the tradition of the novella....
s. Smith hoped to gain some of the same readership enjoyed by All the Year Round
All the Year Round

All the Year Round was a Victorian literature periodical, being a United Kingdom weekly literary magazine founded and owned by Charles Dickens, published between 1859 and 1895 throughout the United Kingdom....
, a similar magazine owned by Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens, Royal Society of Arts , pen-name "Boz", was the most popular English people novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous Reform movement....
, and he employed as editor William Thackeray, Dickens' great literary rival at the time.

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
Victorian era

The Victorian Era of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the period of Victoria of the United Kingdom reign from June 1837 to January 1901....
. 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
Victoria of the United Kingdom

Victoria was from 20 June 1837 the Queen regnant of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and from 1 May 1876 the first Empress of India of the British Raj until her death....
. The stories were often illustrated and it contained works from some of the foremost artists of the time including: George du Maurier
George du Maurier

George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier was a France-born British author and cartoonist....
, Edwin Landseer, Frederic Leighton, and John Everett Millais
John Everett Millais

Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, Royal Academy was an English Painting and illustrator and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood....
. Some of its subsequent editors included G. H. Lewes, Leslie Stephen
Leslie Stephen

Sir Leslie Stephen, Order of the Bath was an England author, critic and mountaineer, and the father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell....
, James Payn
James Payn

James Payn , England novelist, was born at Cheltenham, his father being clerk to the Thames Commissioners and treasurer to the county of Berkshire....
 Peter Quennell
Peter Quennell

Peter Courtney Quennell was an English biographer, literary historian, editor, essayist, poet, and critic.Quennell was the son of architect C.H.B....
 and Leonard Huxley
Leonard Huxley (writer)

Leonard Huxley was a United Kingdom schoolteacher, writer and editing....
.

Important works serialised in the journal include:

  • Framley Parsonage
    Framley Parsonage

    Framley Parsonage is the fourth novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire", first published in serial form in the Cornhill Magazine in 1860....
     by Anthony Trollope
    Anthony Trollope

    Anthony Trollope became one of the most successful, prolific and respected English language novelists of the Victorian era. Some of Trollope's best-loved works, known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire; he also wrote penetrating novels on politics, social, gender issues and conflicts of hi...
  • Wives and Daughters
    Wives and Daughters

    Wives and Daughters is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in the Cornhill Magazine as a serial from August 1864 to January 1866....
     by Elizabeth Gaskell
    Elizabeth Gaskell

    Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, n?e Stevenson, , often referred to simply as Mrs. Gaskell, was an England novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era....
  • The White Company
    The White Company

    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 century, mostly in England and France....
     and J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement
    J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement

    J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement is an 1884 short story by a then-young Arthur Conan Doyle, loosely based on the real mystery of the abandonment of the Mary Celeste, published anonymously in the January 1884 issue of the respected Cornhill Magazine....
     by Arthur Conan Doyle
    Arthur Conan Doyle

    Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, Deputy Lieutenant was a Scotland author most noted for his stories about the Detective fiction Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger....
  • The Ring and the Book
    The Ring and the Book

    The Ring and the Book is a long dramatic narrative poem of 21,000 lines written by Robert Browning. It was published in four installments from 1868 to 1869....
     by Robert Browning
    Robert Browning

    Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian literature poets....
  • Tithonus
    Tithonus

    In Greek mythology, Tithonus or Tithonos was the lover of Eos, Titan of the dawn. He was a Troy by birth, the son of King Laomedon of Troy by a Naiad named Strymo ....
     by Alfred Tennyson
  • Washington Square
    Washington Square

    Washington Square may refer to:Places* Washington Square , Massachusetts* Washington Square , Brookline, Massachusetts* Washington Square Park, Chicago, Illinois...
     by Henry James
    Henry James

    Henry James, Order of Merit , son of theologian Henry James Sr., brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James, was an United States author....
  • Romola
    Romola

    Romola is a historical novel by George Eliot set in the fifteenth century, and is "a deep study of life in the city of Florence from an intellectual, artistic, religious, and social point of view"....
     by George Eliot
    George Eliot

    Mary Anne Evans , better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an England novelist. She was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era....
  • Far from the Madding Crowd
    Far from the Madding Crowd

    Far from the Madding Crowd is Thomas Hardy fourth novel and his first major literary success. It originally appeared, anonymously, as a monthly serial in Cornhill Magazine, where it gained a wide readership; critical notices, too, were plentiful and mostly positive....
     by Thomas Hardy
    Thomas Hardy

    Thomas Hardy, Order of Merit was an England author of the naturalism movement, though he regarded himself primarily as a poet and composed novels mainly for financial gain....
  • Unto This Last
    Unto This Last

    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....
     by John Ruskin
    John Ruskin

    John Ruskin was a British art critic and social thought, also remembered as an author, poet and artist. His essays on art and architecture were extremely influential in the Victorian era and Edwardian period eras....
  • Armadale
    Armadale (novel)

    Armadale by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century semi-Epistolary novel novel. Some chapters consist of letters between the various characters, while other chapters record the events as the characters perceive them....
     by Wilkie Collins
    Wilkie Collins

    William Wilkie Collins was an English people novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. He was hugely popular in his time, and wrote 27 novels, more than 50 short stories, at least 15 plays, and over 100 pieces of non-fiction work....