William Fulford, "The Set," and The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine

In the minds of most Victorian scholars, the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine is associated with William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. However, for the magazine's first readers, its most notable feature was not the individual contributors but the fact that it was produced by college students. The magazine was considered a "curious specimen of the kind of thoughts and language current among the young men" at the two universities. This paper recovers the original context in which the magazine was produced by focusing on the young men who created it, especially William Fulford, who edited eleven of the twelve issues.