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Notes
A. Carlyle, ed., Letters of Thomas Carlyle to John Stuart Mill, John Sterling, and Robert Browning (1923), p. 21.
In 1861 Thackeray told Whitwell Elwin: "I am only a sham editor. Mr. Smith, the publisher, does most of the work and likes it." See "Some Letters of Whitwell Elwin," TLS, Sept. 25, 1953, p. 620.
"The Swinburne Controversy," National Reformer, Dec. 23, 1866; reprinted in Satires and Profanities (1884), p. 103.
"Matthew Browne" (i.e. William Brighty Rands), "Mr. Napier and the Edinburgh Reviewers," Contemporary, XXXVI (Oct., 1879), 272.
"A Note on the Revolution in Journalism," Academy, March 10, 1900; reprinted in Fame in Fiction (1901), p. 126.
"George Paston" (i.e. E. M. Symonds), At John Murray's (1932), pp. 213ff.; J. H. Appleton and A. H. Sayce, Dr. Appleton: His Life and Literary Relics (1881), pp. 82ff.
J. H. Buckley, William Ernest Henley (1945), pp. 112ff.; Newman Flower, Just As It Happened (1950), pp. 71-72.
Leslie Stephen, "Editing," Atlantic Monthly, XCII (Dec., 1903), 751. With ironic urbanity Arnold "forgave" Smith, "viewing his conduct with sorrow rather than with anger." See Arnold, Letters (ed. G. W. E. Russell, 1895), II, 103.
Autobiography, p. 172. On Good Words see also Strahan's series, "Twenty Years of a Publisher's Life," Day of Rest, Jan.-Dec., 1881; Donald Macleod, Memoir of Norman Macleod (1876), pp. 291ff.
C. E. Norton, ed., The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson (1888), I, 277-278.
J. A. Froude, Carlyle's Life in London (1884), I, 171-172. "Chartism" was published by Fraser as a pamphlet.
Norman St. John-Stevas, in Obscenity and the Law (1956), has an enlightening discussion of the legal aspects of this problem. See especially his chapters on "The Victorian Conscience" (pp. 29-65) and "The Law Intervenes" (pp. 66-85).
Gladstone to Mrs. Humphry Ward in conversation, 1888; see Janet Trevelyan, The Life of Mrs. Humphry Ward (1923), p. 58; "Social and Political Life Five-and-Thirty Years Ago," Fraser's, LXII (July, 1860), 131.
Speech by Mark Lemon at Punch's twenty-fifth anniversary dinner, 1866; see G. S. Layard, Shirley Brooks of Punch (1907), p. 284.
W. T. Stead, "The First Fifty Years of Punch," Review of Reviews, XXI (April, 1900), 382. Stead was not quite accurate: Douglas Jerrold in the forties had dealt with a "fallen woman" (The Story of a Feather), and in 1857 John Leech's poignant cartoon, "The Great Social Evil" appeared, said to have been inserted during Mark Lemon's absence through illness.
Gordon Ray, ed., The Letters . . . of William Makepeace Thackeray (1946), IV, 226-227. Mrs. Browning replied, "From your Cornhill stand-point (paterfamilias looking on) you are probably right ten times over. But . . . it is exactly because pure and prosperous women ignore vice, that miserable women suffer wrong by it everywhere."
"Leslie Stephen, Editor," Cornhill, n.s. XXVIII (Jan., 1910), 48-49. In spite of Stephen's efforts, the "painful and unwholesome" tone of Cornhill fiction was criticized. "It is not well that a popular serial, which lies on all our tables, should be made the field for creating sympathy with a woman who wants to marry her brother-in-law, as in Hannah." See "Magazine Literature," Church Quarterly Review, III (Jan., 1877), 390.
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