ABSTRACT
349By September of 1859 EG had been approached by several people involved in the launch of a new monthly magazine by the Cambridge firm of Macmillan. These included David Masson, the newly appointed editor, the novelist and then barrister Thomas Hughes, and Alexander Macmillan himself. She confided to George Smith that she intended to respond negatively (‘for I can’t do all and do well’) adding, with uncharacteristic crispness, ‘I am sorry to disoblige Mr. Hughes, but I don’t care 2d for Mr. Masson’ (Letters, pp. 341, 574, 577). In the end she found herself contributing an obituary article on the American Civil War hero Robert Gould Shaw to the number for December 1863 (9:50, pp. 113–17). It was her only contribution to the magazine.
