The Penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 15 by Charles Knight

The Penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 15 by Charles Knight (1791 - 1893)
Genre(s): Essays & Short Works, Periodicals & Magazines

Read by: BettyB, jenno, Brize C, Phil Schempf, mleigh in English

Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - The Cave of Elephanta
00:09:24 - 02 - The Weather No. 3
00:26:33 - 03 - The British Museum No. 4
00:38:11 - 04 - The Week
00:47:12 - 05 - Improvements in Social Condition
00:56:25 - 06 - The Loss of the Royal George
01:02:14 - 07 - Strange Mode of Curing a Vicious Horse

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. This was the fifteenth edition. - Summary by LynneT