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4 unusual facts about Cornhill Magazine


Cornhill, London

The publishers Smith, Elder and Co, based at No. 65, published the popular literary journal Cornhill Magazine from 1860 to 1975, as well as the Dictionary of National Biography.

Edwin de Leon

Through his friend Thackeray, De Leon became a member of the Garrick Club and a contributor to the Cornhill Magazine.

Emily Henrietta Hickey

She sold her first poem, "Told in the Twilight" to the Cornhill Magazine in 1866 and afterwards contributed to Longman's Magazine, Good Words, The Athenaeum, the Irish Monthly and many others.

Erminda Rentoul Esler

She was well known in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for her novels and short stories, and was published in the Cornhill Magazine.



see also

Culture and Anarchy

Culture and Anarchy is a series of periodical essays by Matthew Arnold, first published in Cornhill Magazine 1867-68 and collected as a book in 1869.