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Sheldon and Company-19th Century Publisher
Sheldon and Company was an important New York publisher in the mid-1800's. My interest in it stems from its publication of juvenile series books. In my bibliography published in 2003 I described 23 series. In the upcoming new edition there will be 49 series noted and discussed. The company was founded by Smith Sheldon.
It is important to realize that "objective journalism" is a 20 th Century concept. In the 17 th through 19 th Centuries all of the papers practiced an "advocacy" journalism. The papers were for or against a cause, or the government. It mattered greatly to its publishers and readers whether the paper was Tory or Whig . The Tatler intended to differ, as it would contain only "accounts of gallantry, pleasure and entertainment" according to its first issue in 1709, but of course a slant is and was shown by the choice of gossip printed.
Newspapers and publishers at dawn of 19th century
Periodicals
Women in the Literary Marketplace
Women in the Literary Marketplace The books and letters in this exhibition present a cross section of writing by English women in the nineteenth century–a period when women entered the literary marketplace in unprecedented numbers. While many women wrote and published books before 1800, few British women planned careers as writers until the nineteenth century. And although there were notable and celebrated exceptions, women were excluded from most areas of literature until the end of the eighteenth century. Less than one hundred years later, women wrote an estimated 20% of all material published, a remarkable change in just three generations. This exhibition explores how women authors achieved such remarkable success in a profession dominated by men, operating in a culture that frowned upon female literary ambition.Forget Me Not: A Hypertextual Archive
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VICTORIAN PERIODICALS
[ Return to VRW ] Tenth edition: July 2010 (First published, 1999) Prepared by Rosemary T.