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. Initially urged by Baptist friends to publish denominational books, he moved to New York and purchased the interest of the Mr. Lamport retired in 1856 and thus Sheldon, Blakeman and Company was born. I am enclosing copies of two letterheads from 1859. Some of the most popular of the Sheldon books were those series written by Jacob Abbott. Sheldon published series by other well known authors also. In addition to Abbott's works, Sheldon published a couple of extremely popular travelogue juvenile series. Newspapers and publishers at dawn of 19th century. It is important to realize that "objective journalism" is a 20th Century concept.
In the 17th through 19th 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. These editorial slants changed with the owners, editors, or the payments received to print stories.
A tax was first imposed on British newspapers in 1712. Where did the British citizen get his news? The London Gazette The London Gazette got its start in 1665 at Oxford. James Perry moved to The London Gazette in 1783.
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.
SHARP: Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing. Forget Me Not: A Hypertextual Archive. Images: FMN (1831) Front Paper-Covered Board FMN (1824) Frontispiece Engraving Updated/Revised: January 28, 2007 Archive/Website built, designed & maintained by:Dr.
Katherine D. HarrisDept. of English & Comp LitSan Jose State University One Washington Square San Jose, CA 95192 Copyright & Citation Information NOTICE: Frames-dependent website. Index of British Literary Annuals. Penguin Classics - Because what you read matters. VICTORIAN PERIODICALS. [Return to VRW] Tenth edition: July 2010 (First published, 1999) Prepared by Rosemary T. VanArsdel Distinguished Professor of English, Emerita University of Puget Sound (With additions by: Solveig C. Note: The word "selected" in the title should be taken seriously, because sources for study have grown greatly over the past thirty years, and are still proliferating.
In the last ten years methods for searching British Victorian/Edwardian periodical literature have altered drastically through introduction of modern electronic technology. It is still useful, however, to be reminded of those farsighted pioneers who early recognized the need to preserve what little was in their possession. Serious and systematic research into Victorian periodicals belongs to the second half of the twentieth century. A similar and equally pressing problem for early scholars was the need to count, identify, and locate runs of journals.
University of Wisconsin Digital Collections. Internet Library of Early Journals. We regret to inform users that this resource is no longer available.
The site has been withdrawn as the technologies which it is built with have reached end-of-life. An archived version of the site is available at Last update to original site: 1999 Date withdrawn: 1 April 2020 Please contact digitalsupport@bodleian.ox.ac.uk with any questions. Acccessing online copies of the journals and magazines Digitized versions of the journals and magazines originally hosted on ILEJ can be accessed through the following providers: Gentleman's Magazine Years 1731-1830 are available via Hathi Trust Digital Library The Annual Register Years 1758-1778 are available via Hathi Trust Digital Library Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Years 1757-1775 (volumes 50-65) are available via JSTOR Notes and Queries The Builder Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Years 1843-1863 (volumes 53-94) are available via Hathi Trust Digital Library Preface from the original site: What is ILEJ?
Aims. The Bijou Gift Book for 1828.