19th Century Magazines

The Cornhill Magazine

By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on May 1, 2025

In 1860, founder and publisher George Smith hired William Makepeace Thackeray as the first editor to write and critique material for The Cornhill Magazine. Eight other men worked as editors until the last issue appeared in 1900. Thackeray devoted issues… Read More ›

Victorian Magazines

By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on September 24, 2022

For many, perhaps most, Victorian readers, fiction was packaged within the pages of a magazine or newspaper rather than between the covers of a book. During the 1830s and 1850s the reduction and eventual abolition of the notorious stamp duty… Read More ›