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  • penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 7-Charles Knight

    penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 7-Charles Knight
    2026/08/31
    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 third edition. - Summary by LynneT
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    1 時間 11 分
  • Spring of Joy A Little Book of Healing-Mary Webb

    Spring of Joy A Little Book of Healing-Mary Webb
    2026/08/30
    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 third edition. - Summary by LynneT
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    3 時間 1 分
  • Morality of Marriage and Other Essays on the Status and Destiny of Woman-Mona Caird

    Morality of Marriage and Other Essays on the Status and Destiny of Woman-Mona Caird
    2026/08/29
    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 third edition. - Summary by LynneT
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    8 時間 30 分
  • Essay Upon Wind, with Curious Anecdotes of Eminent Peuters-Charles James Fox

    Essay Upon Wind, with Curious Anecdotes of Eminent Peuters-Charles James Fox
    2026/08/28
    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 third edition. - Summary by LynneT
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    44 分
  • Mirror of the Sea (Version 2)-Joseph Conrad

    Mirror of the Sea (Version 2)-Joseph Conrad
    2026/08/27
    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 third edition. - Summary by LynneT
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    6 時間 5 分
  • National Geographic Magazine Vol. 01 No. 1-National Geographic Society

    National Geographic Magazine Vol. 01 No. 1-National Geographic Society
    2026/08/26
    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 third edition. - Summary by LynneT
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    3 時間 41 分
  • Human Drift-Jack London

    Human Drift-Jack London
    2026/08/25
    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 third edition. - Summary by LynneT
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    2 時間 9 分
  • Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 036-Various

    Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 036-Various
    2026/08/24
    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 third edition. - Summary by LynneT
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    5 時間 59 分