
The penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 23
Charles Knight
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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
Chapitres
| The Olive | 6:31 | Lu par Katherine Hust |
| Maternal Education | 2:22 | Lu par MFQ1 |
| Meanings of Words No. 3 | 10:49 | Lu par Katherine Hust |
| The Giraffe | 5:44 | Lu par BeAWhale |
| The Shepherd Boy | 4:35 | Lu par Larry Wilson |
| Holyrood House, Edinburgh | 9:12 | Lu par Weretortoise |
| The Firemen's Dog | 5:01 | Lu par mleigh |
| Chaucer's House of Fame | 8:15 | Lu par Brize C |
| The Week | 12:05 | Lu par BeAWhale |