The penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 18
Charles Knight
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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 Colosseum | 14:25 | Read by jenno |
| Sale of the Spectator | 6:15 | Read by BettyB |
| Age of the Horse | 4:01 | Read by Dean Charles Graner |
| Tobacco | 5:57 | Read by mleigh |
| The Week | 12:02 | Read by jenno |
| The Advantages of the Taste for the Beauties of Nature | 8:50 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| District Society of Brighton | 8:59 | Read by BettyB |
| Lycidas | 5:07 | Read by jenno |