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In an earlier life he spent many years working as a welfare benefits adviser for a London housing association, and was the author of several books and articles on housing benefit and other social security matters.Īvailable outside North and South America from the British Library. He is a long-standing member of the Children's Books History Society, and a regular contributor to the Society's newsletter as well as to newsletters from other literary societies. Kirkpatrick is the author of Bullies, Beaks and Flannelled Fools: An Annotated Bibliography of Boys School Fiction, 1742 - 2000 (privately published, 19) and The Encyclopaedia of Boys School Stories (Ashgate, 2000). Penny (Rachel Miner) goes on a road trip to recover from a horrible accident in her childhood.

The collection is particularly rich in the penny fiction of the 1840s and 1850s. It concludes with a comprehensive checklist, giving publication details of over 600 periodicals. The Barry Ono Collection comprises some 700 books and magazines representing the development of the penny dreadful from the chapbooks of the early 19th century to the boys periodicals and imitations of American dime novels of the 1880s and 1890s.

It also looks at cheap periodical publishing for boys in America, before exploring the introduction of more 'respectable' periodicals such as the Boy's Own Paper and Chums, and the attempts of a young Alfred Harmsworth, later Lord Northcliffe and founder of the Amalgamated Press, to usurp the 'penny dreadful' by producing the 'ha'penny dreadfuller'.įinally, it charts the progress of the story paper through the first half of the 20th century, before it gave way to comics, imported American magazines, and television. Starring: Natalie Dormer, Daniel Zovatto, Nathan Lane. Brett, beginning with Boys of England in 1866, and his rivalry with the Emmett brothers and other publishers. Penny dreadful, an inexpensive novel of violent adventure or crime that was especially popular in mid-to-late Victorian England.

It contains 100 black-and-white illustrations and 16 in color.īeginning with educational and religious magazines, it follows the trail through the violent and sensational 'penny blood' which thrived between around 18, to early attempts to entertain as well as educate boys through monthly magazines, and the ground-breaking weekly story papers and 'penny dreadfuls' of Edwin J. The penny dreadful character Spring-Heeled Jack was based on real-life London accounts of a 'ghost, imp or devil' that terrorized the city from 1837 to 1904.

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This book tells, for the first time, the full history of the British boys' periodical, from its origins in the second half of the 18th century to its decline after the Second World War. Penny dreadfuls The penny dreadful was a 19th-century publishing phenomenon.

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