The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 35 by Charles Knight

The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 35 by Charles Knight (1791 - 1893)
Genre(s): Essays & Short Works, Periodicals & Magazines

Read by: mleigh, Brize C, BettyB, Stacey Malcolm, Beeswaxcandle, Larry Wilson in English

Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - Catching Turtles
00:12:43 - 02 - The Flemish Language No. 2
00:17:35 - 03 - Comets No. 1
00:25:39 - 04 - The Parthenon
00:26:55 - 05 - Naples
00:35:06 - 06 - Fractions
00:53:49 - 07 - The Week
01:00:57 - 08 - Domestic Peace

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