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A penny reading for the 71st (Highland) Regiment of Foot at Aldershot, 1871. The penny reading was a form of popular public entertainment that arose in the United Kingdom in the middle of the 19th century, consisting of readings and other performances, for which the admission charged was one penny.
The idea of a penny paper was not new in the 1830s. By 1826, many editors were experimenting with sports news, gossip, and cheap press. [4] Most newspapers in the early 19th century cost six cents and were distributed mostly through subscriptions.
The 2 pence Mulready stationery issued in 1840. Rowland Hill expected the Mulready stationery to be more popular than the postage stamps but the postage stamp prevailed. The design was so elaborate and misunderstood that it generated widespread ridicule and lampooning, and in addition was perceived in some areas as a covert government attempt to control the supply of envelopes, and hence ...
Penny dreadfuls were cheap popular serial literature produced during the 19th century in the United Kingdom. The pejorative term is roughly interchangeable with penny horrible, penny awful, [1] and penny blood. [2] The term typically referred to a story published in weekly parts of 8 to 16 pages, each costing one penny. [3]
Feb. 26—Itinerant sawyer Dinah Clark sawed her way to local fame in 19th-century Reading. Carrying a buck on her shoulders and saw in hand, the tall, strong Black woman was a familiar figure in ...
In the late 20th century, much of American journalism became housed in big media chains. With the coming of digital journalism in the 21st century, all newspapers faced a business crisis as readers turned to the Internet for sources and advertisers followed them. A selection of American newspapers from 1885, with portraits of their publishers.
A yellow-back or yellowback is a cheap novel which was published in Britain in the second half of the 19th century. They were occasionally called "mustard-plaster" novels. [1] Developed in the 1840s to compete with the "penny dreadful", yellow-backs were marketed as entertaining reading.
The Sun was the first successful penny daily newspaper in the United States, and was for a time, the most successful newspaper in America. [3] [4] The paper had a central focus on crime news, in which it was a pioneer, and was the first journal to hire a police reporter. [5] [6] Its audience was primarily working class readers.