The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900 |
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... audience as has never yet been known . " 8 This is the voice of prophecy indeed , though most people will feel that it is tinged with what , in the event , has proved an un- warranted optimism . The impact of the mass public upon mod ...
... audience as has never yet been known . " 8 This is the voice of prophecy indeed , though most people will feel that it is tinged with what , in the event , has proved an un- warranted optimism . The impact of the mass public upon mod ...
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... audience . At Liverpool the entrance fee , which was a guinea and a half in 1770 , was increased to five guineas in 1784 ; at Leeds , it was a guinea in 1768 , three guineas in 1786 , and twenty in 1822 . In addition , members had to ...
... audience . At Liverpool the entrance fee , which was a guinea and a half in 1770 , was increased to five guineas in 1784 ; at Leeds , it was a guinea in 1768 , three guineas in 1786 , and twenty in 1822 . In addition , members had to ...
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... audience of superior education but relatively little spending money : the people who disdained cheap weeklies , with a few exceptions like Household Words , but who could not spare the two shillings or half - crown at which the ...
... audience of superior education but relatively little spending money : the people who disdained cheap weeklies , with a few exceptions like Household Words , but who could not spare the two shillings or half - crown at which the ...
Contents
FROM CAXTON TO THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 1 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 30 |
THE TIME OF CRISIS 17911800 | 73 |
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artisans audience Autobiography became Bible Blackwood's Magazine booksellers boys British Brougham Chambers's Journal chap Charles Knight Chartists cheap books circulating library classics Cobbett common reader copies decades Dickens early Edinburgh edition eighteenth century elementary England English literature evangelical fiction figures free libraries G. W. M. Reynolds History houses Ibid institute issued James Catnach John John Clare knowledge labor later least literary London Manchester mass reading mechanics Memoirs Methodist middle middle-class million moral movement nation Newspaper Stamp Newspaper Stamp Committee nineteenth century novels papers Penny Cyclopaedia Penny Magazine periodicals poetry poets political popular printed publishers radical reading habit reading matter reading public religious reprint Review schools Scott Shakespeare shilling social Society sold spread stories Sunday taste Thomas Thomas Burt tion town tracts trade utilitarian Victorian Victorian era volumes W. H. Smith weekly newspapers William William Cobbett workers writers