TY  - BOOK
AU  - Knight,Charles
TI  - The penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 3, April 14, 1832
AV  - AP 
PY  - 2025///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - English periodicals
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Penny_Magazine; Release date is 2025-08-11; Steven desJardins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net; Originally published; London: Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 1832
N2  - "The penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge" is an illustrated British periodical published from 1832 to 1845. Created for working-class readers and sold for just one penny, it achieved remarkable early success with 200,000 copies sold in its first year. Filled with wood-engraved illustrations and educational content, the magazine aimed to spread knowledge through rational inquiry during a time of social reform. Yet its dry, Whiggish approach ultimately failed to sustain its intended audience, leading to financial struggles and an eventual price increase that undermined its original mission. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76670
ER  -