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Chambers's Edinburgh Journal was a weekly 16-page magazine started by William Chambers in 1832. [1] The first edition was dated 4 February 1832, [ 2 ] and priced at one penny . Topics included history, religion, language, and science.
In the beginning of 1832 William Chambers started a weekly publication under the title of Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, (known since 1854 as Chambers's Journal of Literature, Science and Arts [17]), which speedily attained a large circulation (84,000), and to which his younger brother Robert Chambers was at first only a contributor.
In 1824, Robert wrote, and the brothers published, Traditions of Edinburgh. Education was always the main priority for William and Robert. [1] In 1832, they published The Chambers Journal, a weekly newspaper containing articles on subjects such as history, religion, language and science, many of which were written by Robert himself. It was an ...
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal (1832–1956; renamed Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Arts in 1854, and Chambers's Journal in 1897). Dublin Journal of Medical & Chemical Science (1832–1925; renamed Dublin Journal of Medical Science, and Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science from 1846 to 1871). Hereford Times (1832 ...
Robert Chambers' grave, Dean Cemetery. Robert Chambers FRSE (March 1832 – 23 March 1888) was a Scottish publisher, editor of Chambers' Journal, amateur golfer and encyclopaedist, the son of Robert Chambers, the co-founder of the W & R Chambers publishing house in Edinburgh. [1]
Charles Knight created it for the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge in response to Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, which started two months earlier. Sold for only a penny and illustrated with wood-engravings, it was an expensive enterprise that could only be supported by very large circulation.
Among the different journals she wrote for were Chambers Edinburgh Journal, Household Words, All the Year Round, The Month, People's Journal, Popular Record, Temple Bar, and Argosy. [2] Once she had acquired some reputation she started to write her own books.
Orr himself was a publishers' agent from the 1830s, and was a close associate of Robert and William Chambers. [7] He printed a London edition of Chambers's Edinburgh Journal by mid-1832. [8] The arrangement used stereotype plates, and brought the circulation up to 50,000. [9]