The penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 18


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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. - Summary by LynneT

Chapitres

The Colosseum 14:25 Lu par jenno
Sale of the Spectator 6:16 Lu par BettyB
Age of the Horse 4:02 Lu par Dean Charles Graner
Tobacco 5:58 Lu par mleigh
The Week 12:02 Lu par jenno
The Advantages of the Taste for the Beauties of Nature 8:50 Lu par Larry Wilson
District Society of Brighton 8:59 Lu par BettyB
Lycidas 5:08 Lu par jenno