The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 29 by Charles Knight

The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 29 by Charles Knight (1791 - 1893)
Genre(s): Essays & Short Works, Periodicals & Magazines

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

Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - The Warwick Vase
00:03:03 - 02 - Escape of De Latude from the Bastille (concluded from the last number)
00:13:01 - 03 - Venomous Serpents
00:26:01 - 04 - Fingal's Cave
00:39:14 - 05 - Scottish Husbandsmen of the Last Century
00:51:58 - 06 - Inscription
00:53:31 - 07 - The Week

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