Mannin (journal)

The Manx Society was created very much within the Pan-Celtic wave of revivals of Celtic national identities during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

The expenses of the publication were met by Morrison, who had inherited wealth from her parents, her father having been a successful merchant in Peel.

The artist selected eventually was Archibald Knox, although this was only due to the fact that Morrison's first choice, Frank Graves, had turned the commission down.

Morrison also wanted to address political issues with bearing on the island, such as in articles like "Should our National Legislature be Abolished?"

Also of note is the foreword to the first issue of the journal, wherein Thomas Drury, former Bishop of the island, made explicit the distance of Mannin from the writings of Hall Caine, today considered to be the national novelist of the Isle of Man.

[9] In contrast to the literary content of Mannin, Drury wrote of Caine's novels that "my soul revolts from such a travesty of Island life".