Note 11 to the Introduction of the author's Pegasus in Harness: Victorian Publishing and W. M. Thackeray, which University Press of Virginia published in 1992. It has been included in the Victorian Web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.
The editors of The Wellesley Index of Periodicals, in the process of indexing just forty of the hundreds of Victorian periodicals, identified over 12,000 different contributors. An estimate of the total number of author, represented in nineteenth-century English periodicals must at least double that figure.
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