2015 VanArsdel Prize Essay: Health Advice in Popular Periodicals: "Reynolds's Miscellany, the Family Herald", and Their Correspondents

According to a contemporary commentator, standing "at the head, both in age and popularity, of all the penny serials," was the Family Herald.3 It was a hit from the first issue in May 1843, by 1849 it was selling 125,000 copies every week, and in 1855 its circulation reached 300,000.4 It w...

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Published inVictorian periodicals review Vol. 49; no. 1; pp. 28 - 48
Main Author FURLONG, CLAIRE
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Baltimore The Johns Hopkins University Press 01.04.2016
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
Subjects
Attitudes
British & Irish literature
Collins, Wilkie (1824-1889)
Editors
English literature
Essays
Families & family life
Health care industry
Mens health
Middle class
Periodicals
Politics
Readers
Reading
Women
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Summary:According to a contemporary commentator, standing "at the head, both in age and popularity, of all the penny serials," was the Family Herald.3 It was a hit from the first issue in May 1843, by 1849 it was selling 125,000 copies every week, and in 1855 its circulation reached 300,000.4 It was owned and published by George Biggs and edited by journalist James Elishama Smith, who remained at the helm until his death in 1857. [...]it contained practical information and articles on history, science, and technology, and it occasionally became a vehicle for Reynolds's political opinions.
ISSN:0709-4698
1712-526X