The penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 15
Charles Knight
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The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was published in competition to Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, which started two months earlier. Costing just one penny, it was aimed at the working class and needed broad circulation in order to survive. Initially successful, its content proved to miss the mark and be of more interest to the upper classes and folded after a couple of years. Its format was to offer short essays on a variety of topics the paternalistic publisher deemed important to its readership. This was the fifteenth edition. - Summary by LynneT
Chapters
| The Cave of Elephanta | 9:24 | Read by BettyB |
| The Weather No. 3 | 17:09 | Read by jenno |
| The British Museum No. 4 | 11:38 | Read by BettyB |
| The Week | 9:01 | Read by BettyB |
| Improvements in Social Condition | 9:12 | Read by Brize C |
| The Loss of the Royal George | 5:49 | Read by Phil Schempf |
| Strange Mode of Curing a Vicious Horse | 6:04 | Read by mleigh |