Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 31
by Charles Knight
About this book
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. It's format was to offer short essays on a variety of topics the paternalistic publisher deemed important to its readership. - Summary by LynneT
Chapters (6)
1The British Museum No. 6
2On the Qudrature of the Circle
3The Banana, or Plantain
4Falls of the Clyde
5Cowper's Lines on the Receipt of his Mother's Picture
6The Week
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