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  • Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 024-Various

    Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 024-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. (Summary by LynneT)
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    4 時間 27 分
  • Varied Types-G. K. Chesterton

    Varied Types-G. K. Chesterton
    2026/08/23
    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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    4 時間 46 分
  • penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 11-Charles Knight

    penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 11-Charles Knight
    2026/08/22
    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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    1 時間 11 分
  • Monthly supplement of the penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 16-Charles Knight

    Monthly supplement of the penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 16-Charles Knight
    2026/08/21
    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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    1 時間 9 分
  • Crisis A Record of the Darker Races, Vol. I, No. 5-W. E. B. Du Bois

    Crisis A Record of the Darker Races, Vol. I, No. 5-W. E. B. Du Bois
    2026/08/20
    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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    2 時間 24 分
  • Curiosities of Olden Times-Sabine Baring-Gould

    Curiosities of Olden Times-Sabine Baring-Gould
    2026/08/19
    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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    8 時間 36 分
  • Goose-Quill Papers-Louise Imogen Guiney

    Goose-Quill Papers-Louise Imogen Guiney
    2026/08/18
    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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    3 時間 28 分
  • Tocsin of Revolt, and other Essays-Brander Matthews

    Tocsin of Revolt, and other Essays-Brander Matthews
    2026/08/17
    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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    6 時間 4 分