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The penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 24 by Charles Knight (1791 - 1893)
Genre(s): Essays & Short Works

Read by: E. Sharp, Brize C, Larry Wilson, BettyB, mleigh, PeregrineMyon in English

Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - Constantinople
00:09:02 - 02 - The Meaning of Words No. 4
00:16:38 - 03 - Song
00:19:30 - 04 - The Labourers of Europe No. 2
00:32:54 - 05 - The National Gallery No. 3
00:39:18 - 06 - Art of Writing
00:45:17 - 07 - Large-Headed Quadrupeds
00:48:28 - 08 - Witchcraft
00:51:35 - 09 - Heraldry

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

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