The Penny Magazine

of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

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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. It's format was to offer short essays on a variety of topics the paternalistic publisher deemed important to its readership. - Summary by LynneT

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Escape of De Latude from the Bastille (concluded from the last number) 9:57 Lu par BettyB
Venomous Serpents 13:00 Lu par Larry Wilson
Fingal's Cave 13:12 Lu par BettyB
Scottish Husbandsmen of the Last Century 12:42 Lu par Brize C
Inscription 1:32 Lu par Stacey Malcolm
The Week 5:36 Lu par BettyB