ABSTRACT
The National Standard was published from St Paul's Churchyard, in the shadows of the dome, and clinging to the end of Grub/Fleet Street; the Cornhill symbolized commercial success and banking respectability. And William Morris Thackeray had used it as his imaginative starting-point for a journey to Grand Cairo in his travel book of 1846, a year of economic boom. The Cornhill Magazine is notable in Thackeray's career for a number of reasons. In 1859, when he became involved in the planning for the first number for January 1860, it was eight years since he had left the team of writers on Punch, and he had not since been associated with a magazine or newspaper. Thackeray's main contributions to the Cornhill Magazine are Lovel the Widower, in six parts from January to June 1860, The Adventures of Philip, January 1861 to August 1862, and Roundabout Papers, 34 in total, the last one appearing in November 1863, a month before he died.
