The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 27


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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. It's format was to offer short essays on a variety of topics the paternalistic publisher deemed important to its readership. - Summary by LynneT

Chapters

Westminster Bridge 4:49 Read by mleigh
Manufacture of Earthenware and Porcelain 17:43 Read by BettyB
Stratford-on-Avon 12:05 Read by Larry Wilson
Meanings of Words No. 6 7:58 Read by Bruce Kachuk
The Week 16:16 Read by BeAWhale
The Holly Tree 2:44 Read by Phil Schempf