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Charles Knight (15 March 1791 – 9 March 1873) was an English publisher, editor and author. He published and contributed to works such as The Penny Magazine , The Penny Cyclopaedia , and The English Cyclopaedia , and established the Local Government Chronicle .
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.
Charles Knight (civil servant) (1863–1941), British civil servant; C. L. Knight (Charles Landon Knight, 1867–1933), American lawyer, publisher and United States Representative from Ohio; Charles Yale Knight (1868–1940), American engineer, inventor of the Knight engine; Charles R. Knight (1874–1953), American artist who specialized in ...
Anne Knight (1792–1860), children's writer and educator; Charles Knight (1791–1873), writer and publisher; Ellis Cornelia Knight (1757–1837), novelist and painter; Eric Knight (1897–1943), novelist and children's writer, Lassie Come-Home; G. Wilson Knight (1897–1985), critic and scholar; Henry Gally Knight (1786–1846), novelist and ...
The magazine was launched in 1855 by bookseller and publisher Charles Knight. It was then published by Emap, [ 1 ] now Metropolis. It is politically independent.
The Englishman's Library was an English book series of the 1840s, a venture of the publisher James Burns. It ran eventually to 31 volumes. The title had been used already in 1824, for The Englishman's library, edited by E. H. L., published by Charles Knight. [1] The series was announced in ambitious fashion in the British Critic. [2]
The Society set out to achieve this by acting as an intermediary between authors and publishers by launching several series of publications. Its printers included Baldwin & Cradock, later succeeded by Charles Knight. The SDUK commissioned work and dealt with the printers, and finally distributed the publications; profits were used to continue ...
March 15 – Charles Knight, English publisher and author (died 1873) July 5 – Samuel Bailey, English philosopher and author (died 1870) August 17 – Richard Lalor Sheil, Irish politician, author and orator (died 1851) September 21 – István Széchenyi, Hungarian politician, writer and diarist (died 1860)