Glances Back Through Seventy Years

Autobiographical and Other Reminiscences

Henry Vizetelly (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

460 Seiten

2010
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-00929-4 (ISBN)

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Published in London in 1893, the year before his death, Henry Vizetelly's two-volume autobiography recalls his eventful career as a journalist, writer and publisher. His book is a fascinating blend of political, social and personal history, and reflects the turbulent literary world of nineteenth-century London, Paris and Berlin.

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.

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. The origin 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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	4.3.2010
Reihe/Serie	Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries ; Volume 1
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	580 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
ISBN-10	1-108-00929-8 / 1108009298
ISBN-13	978-1-108-00929-4 / 9781108009294
Zustand	Neuware