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

Chapitres

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