The penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 23 by Charles Knight

The penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 23 by Charles Knight (1791 - 1893)
Genre(s): Essays & Short Works, Periodicals & Magazines

Read by: Katherine Hust, MFQ1, BeAWhale, Larry Wilson, Weretortoise, mleigh, Brize C in English

Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - The Olive
00:06:31 - 02 - Maternal Education
00:08:54 - 03 - Meanings of Words No. 3
00:19:43 - 04 - The Giraffe
00:25:27 - 05 - The Shepherd Boy
00:30:04 - 06 - Holyrood House, Edinburgh
00:39:17 - 07 - The Firemen's Dog
00:44:18 - 08 - Chaucer's House of Fame
00:52:34 - 09 - 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. Its format was to offer short essays on a variety of topics the paternalistic publisher deemed important to its readership. - Summary by LynneT