- Penny Magazine
"The Penny Magazine", published every Saturday from
31 March 1832 to31 October 1845 , was an illustrated British magazine aimed at theworking class .Charles Knight created it for theSociety for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge in response to "Chambers's Edinburgh Journal ", which started two months earlier. Sold for only a penny and illustrated with woodcuts, it was an expensive enterprise that could only be supported by very large circulation. Though initially very successful—with a circulation of 200,000 in the first year—it proved too dry and too Whiggish to appeal to theworking class audience it needed to be financially viable. Its competitor—which included a weekly short story—grew more slowly, but lasted much longer. [Secord, "Victorian Sensation", p 68; Altick, "English Common Reader", p 333-4]References
*James A. Secord, "Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation. University of Chicago Press, 2000. ISBN 0-226-74410-8
*Richard Altick , "The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900". 2nd ed., Ohio State University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-8142-0794-4External links
* http://www.history.rochester.edu/pennymag/
"The Commercial History of the Penny Magazine"
* http://english.cla.umn.edu/PM/commmenu.html
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