On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 jane.wickenden@lineone.net wrote:
> Can anyone tell me anything about "Macmillan's magazine" (Cambridge; London:
> Macmillan, 1860-1907)?
Macmillan's was one of many, many magazines that serialized fiction in
the 19th and 20th centuries. About the only English-language magazines
that still regularly publish serials are science-fiction
magazines, but for over a century a great deal of popular fiction first
appeared that way. Fiction is/was not serialized to claim copyright-- the
serialization makes extra money for the author (and, it is hoped, the
publisher). In 20th century America, the last general-interest mass
circulation magazine to serialize fiction was the Saturday Evening Post
where (for example) most of P.G Wodehouse's novels and C.S. Forester's
Hornblower books made their first appearance. And in the 1960's and 70's,
authors like Ian Fleming and Vladimir Nabokov were still having all their
new novels serialzed in Playboy.
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> I ask, because the Institute library has a patchy set of the first 24 volumes,
> which seem to have come from the Officers' wards at one of the Naval Hospitals
> (whether Haslar or Plymouth I cannot at the moment determine), and the volumes
> I have include serialisations of T.Hughes, "Tom Brown at Oxford", H.Kingsley,
> "Ravenhoe", and C.Kingsley, "The water-babies", all pre-dating, as far as
> I can see, their first publication in book form.
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> Was this some sort of mechanism for establishing copyright?
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> Out of interest rather than strict professional need, but I am getting intrigued.
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> Yours,
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> Jane
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> J.V.S. Wickenden,
> Historic Collections Librarian
> Institute of Naval Medicine
> Alverstoke
> Hampshire PO12 2DL
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