Penny Illustrated Paper

Penny Illustrated Paper

The "Penny Illustrated Paper" was a cheap (1d.) illustrated weekly newspaper, which ran from 1861 to 1913.

Illustrated weekly newspapers had been pioneered by the Illustrated London News (published from 1842, costing fivepence): its imitators included the Pictorial Times (1843-8), and - after the 1855 repeal of the Stamp Act - the Illustrated Times. With the abolition of paper duty in 1861 it was possible to envisage an even cheaper mass-circulation illustrated weekly. The first issue, 12 October 1861, announced itself confidently under the masthead "PENNY ILLUSTRATED PAPER: With All the News of the Week": "A new era opens upon the people. In producing a paper for the million, let us plainly say, we want be esteemed the friend of the people... A new era is opened to us by the Repeal of the Paper Duties" [http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/system/paper/index.cfm?fuseaction=paper.page&refId=PEN/1861/10/12/1/PG001.xml&collection=PEN]

The paper was apparently initially the charge of Ebenezer Farrington, [http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/collections/pip/textintro.cfm] but the wife and sons of the recently deceased Herbert Ingram, proprietors of the "Illustrated London News" - also seem to have been behind the venture. ["In 1861 Latey joined the staff of the "Penny Illustrated Paper", then newly founded by William Ingram of the "Illustrated London News" W. B. Owen, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/34415 ‘Latey, John (1842–1902)’] , rev. Joanne Potier, "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 10 Sept 2007]

References

External links

* [http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/collections/pip/ Searchable online text, 1861-1913] at the British Library showcase [http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/ Collect Britain]


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