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Some Journals Wedgwood published in

Macmillan's Magazine was established in the mid-19th century and was part of a new wave of 'monthly magazines.'

 

Don't let the term 'Magazine' mislead you! This was a prestigious, highbrow publication, akin to an academic journal by today's standards, featuring a significant amount of philosophy. 

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See: 

VanArsdel, Rosemary (2000) ‘Macmillan’s Magazine and the Fair Sex: 1859–1874', part one, Victorian Periodicals Review 33 (4): 374–96.

and Linda K. Hughes (2012) 'On New Monthly Magazines' here.

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The Spectator is a weekly newspaper that's still going, though it has undergone significant changes over  the years. In the late nineteenth century, Richard Holt Hutton was its editor, steering it to a liberal stance supporting the Union in the American Civil War, and focusing on literature and theology.

 

Some articles, such as those by Wedgwood, were quite long, reaching around 5,000 words.

 

Hutton was a mentor to Wedgwood, whose writing style he influenced. E. M. Forster said their writing was indistinguishable! (though actually it is distinguishable...)

The Westminster Review was one of the most prestigious of all Victorian journals. It had a strict policy of anonymity.

The Contemporary Review was published in the later century and was one of the highest profile journals at the time.

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Wedgwood published an amazing array of signed articles in it and for 3 years was their regular reviewer of new fiction.

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