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The first story paper to really take off was The Boys' and Girls' Penny Magazine, first published in September 1832. In 1866, Charles Stephens began selling Boys of England on the English streets for a penny—the first "penny dreadful". Story papers in this style minimized the expense of writing in order to produce an extremely cheap product.
Pages in category "Children's magazines published in the United Kingdom" The following 62 pages are in this category, out of 62 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The first known edition of what would later become known as a "story paper" had been the unsuccessful monthly Young Gentleman's Magazine, published in 1777 and discontinued after six editions. [4] The first story paper to make an impact was The Boys' and Girls' Penny Magazine, first published in September 1832.
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The Penny Magazine was an illustrated British magazine aimed at the working class, published every Saturday from 31 March 1832 to 31 October 1845. 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 ...
Both sold well, the Penny Magazine with a circulation of 200,000 by the end of its first year. The Penny Cyclopaedia, as a result of the heavy excise duty on paper, was only completed in 1844 at a financial loss of £40,000. He edited and published London (1841) in three volumes, a heavily illustrated history of the city.
It became a very successful magazine as it attained a circulation of more than 20,000 copies within a year. [4] Frederic Hudson, one of the first to write about the history of American journalism, believed the rise of the penny press to be a key factor in the development of the modern newspaper. Hudson considered newspapers to be dull during ...