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

The penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 18 by Charles Knight (1791 - 1893)
Genre(s): Essays & Short Works

Read by: jenno, BettyB, Dean Charles Graner, mleigh, Larry Wilson in English

Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - The Colosseum
00:14:26 - 02 - Sale of the Spectator
00:20:42 - 03 - Age of the Horse
00:24:44 - 04 - Tobacco
00:30:42 - 05 - The Week
00:42:45 - 06 - The Advantages of the Taste for the Beauties of Nature
00:51:35 - 07 - District Society of Brighton
01:00:35 - 08 - Lycidas

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