The penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 11
Charles Knight
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
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
Chapters
| The Crocodile | 7:22 | Read by Christina Roberts |
| Statistical Notes -- England and Wales -- continued | 12:56 | Read by Brize C |
| Singular Escape | 9:41 | Read by BettyB |
| The British Museum No. 3 | 9:42 | Read by ZoeM |
| Caution in Prosperity | 4:04 | Read by mleigh |
| The Week | 9:59 | Read by Christina Roberts |
| The Weather No. 1 | 9:02 | Read by BettyB |
| The Nightingale and the Glow Worm | 7:44 | Read by Brize C |