The Leader (newspaper)

The Leader (newspaper)

The Leader was a radical weekly newspaper, published from 1850 to 1860 at a price of 6d.

George Henry Lewes and Thornton Hunt founded "The Leader" in 1850. Lewes contributed theatre criticism under the pseudonym 'Vivian'. Later editors appear to have included Edward F. S. Pigott and Frederick Guest Tomlins. Contributors included Thomas Spencer Baynes, ["ONDB"] Wilkie Collins, [ e.g. Wilkie Collins, [http://www.deadline.demon.co.uk/wilkie/etext/sundayt.htm 'A Plea for Sunday Reform'] , "The Leader", 27 September 1851. For identification of other contributions by Collins, see Kirk Beetz, "Victorian Periodicals Review" 15:1, Spring 1982, pp. 20-29] George Eliot, Andrew Halliday, the future theatre manager John Hollingshead (1827-1904), the future politician James Mackenzie Maclean (1835-1906), the future anthropologist John McLennan, Gerald Massey, the art critic Henry Merritt (1822-1877), Edmund Ollier (1826-1886), Herbert Spencer, and the political journalist Edward Michael Whitty (1827-1860). The paper carried correspondence from William Edward Forster (proposing state farms and workshops) and Barbara Bodichon (on prostitution).

References

External links

* [http://www.ncse.kcl.ac.uk/redist/pdf/013.pdf Shapshot:Leader] at [http://www.ncse.kcl.ac.uk/index.html nineteenth-century serials edition]
*Laurel Brake, [http://www.ncse.kcl.ac.uk/redist/pdf/lb_town_country.pdf '‘Town and Country’? : the Northern Star, the Leader and multiple editions']
*The complete run of the "Leader" is available at the [http://www.ncse.ac.uk Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (NCSE)]
* [http://www.ncse.ac.uk/headnotes/ldr.html "The Leader (1850-1859)"] (NCSE)


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