Dear Jane,
There is a brief note about Macmillan's Magazine at:
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jmacmillan.htm
A great deal has been written about the Victorian serial.
One online resource that includes a brief bibliography on the subject is:
http://www.umd.umich.edu/casl/hum/eng/classes/434/geweb/THEHISTO.htm
A standard work is: The Victorian serial by Linda K. Hughes and Michael Lund.
(Charlottesville: The University of Virginia Press, 1991).
Other books on the subject include: Modes of production of Victorian novels by N. N.
Feltes (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986) and Victorian novels in serial
by J. Don Vann (New York: Modern Language Assocation of America, 1985.)
A more recent publication that relates to the Victorian serial is : Serializing
fiction in the Victorian Press by Graham Law (Houndsmill, Basingstoke ; New York:
Palgrave, 2000).
I hope these resources may be some help.
Cheers,
Albert Masters
jane.wickenden@lineone.net wrote:
> Can anyone tell me anything about "Macmillan's magazine" (Cambridge; London:
> Macmillan, 1860-1907)?
>
> 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.
>
> Was this some sort of mechanism for establishing copyright?
>
> Out of interest rather than strict professional need, but I am getting intrigued.
>
> Yours,
>
> Jane
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++
> J.V.S. Wickenden,
> Historic Collections Librarian
> Institute of Naval Medicine
> Alverstoke
> Hampshire PO12 2DL