George Smith (publisher, born 1824)

Posthumous portrait of George Smith by John Collier, 1901

George Murray Smith (19 March 1824 – 6 April 1901)[1] was a British publisher. He was the son of George Smith (1789–1846), who, with Alexander Elder (1790–1876), started the Victorian publishing firm of Smith, Elder & Co. in 1816. His brainchild, The Cornhill Magazine, was the premier fiction-carrying magazine of the 19th century.[2]

  1. ^ Sidney Lee (1901). "Memoir of George Smith" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  2. ^ John Sutherland. "The Cornhill Magazine" in The Stanford/Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction. 1989

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