Glances back through seventy years: autobiographical and other reminiscences v. 1

This autobiography recalls the eventful career of the nineteenth-century publisher and journalist, Henry Vizetelly (1820-1894). Born in London, Vizetelly was apprenticed to a wood engraver as a young child. He entered the printing business and helped found two successful but short-lived newspapers, the Pictorial Times and the Illustrated Times. From 1865 Vizetelly worked in Paris and later Berlin as a foreign correspondent for the Illustrated London News, and also wrote and published several books. On his return to England, he became a publisher of foreign novels and gained notoriety for his translations of Emile Zola which challenged strict Victorian laws on obscenity and led to his prosecution and imprisonment. His book is a fascinating blend of public and personal history, providing an insight into the turbulent literary world of nineteenth-century Europe. Volume 1 covers his life up to the infamous Palmer Trial in 1856. INDICE: 1. When George IV was king; 2. School days; 3. The reform frenzy and the rick-burnings; 4. The flood of penny literature; 5. Songs and slang phrases; 6. Early pencil and graver work; 7. Some struggling artists; 8. 'Heads of the people' and 'Illustrious Shakspere'; 9. Ribald newspapers and their editors; 10. A Derbyshire excursion; 11. Alfred Bunn and Alfred Crowquill; 12. Theorigin of the 'Illustrated London News'; 13. 'The Pictorial Times'; 14. The Chevalier Wikoff and his capture of an heiress; 15. My recollections of W. M. Thackeray; 16. Disraeli's friendly overtures to 'Punch'; 17. 'Pasquin' and the 'puppet show'; 18. A fictitious goldfinder's diary; 19. A theft from Napoleon's privy purse; 20. Macaulay's speeches; 21. The Palmer trial.

• ISBN: 978-1-108-00929-4
• Editorial: Cambridge University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 460
• Fecha Publicación: 04/03/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés