Glances Back Through Seventy Years

Autobiographical and Other Reminiscences

Henry Vizetelly (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

456 Seiten

2010
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-00930-0 (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 Berlin as a foreign correspondent for the Illustrated London News, and also wrote and published several books. He later 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 2 begins in 1858 with the marriage of Princess Vicky and concludes with Vizetelly's return to England in 1878.

22. The French detective and his smart subordinate; 23. An expedition to Homburg; 24. The paper duty agitation; 25. On board the Great Eastern during the explosion; 26. A suspicious fire at Campden House; 27. The Shakspeare tercentenary committee and Mr Thackeray; 28. French apartments; 29. Odd ways of getting a living in Paris; 30. New Year's Day in Paris; 31. European potentates in Paris; 32. At the prefecture of police; 33. With the court at Compiègne; 34. On and about the boulevards; 35. In Brittany; 36. The Italian colony; 37. Boulevardian journalists; 38. In the vineyards of the Médoc; 39. A conflagration among the Bordeaux shipping; 40. The Pantin tragedy; 41. At Troppman's execution; 42. In the wake of Rory of the Hills.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	4.3.2010
Reihe/Serie	Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries ; Volume 2
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	26 x 216 mm
Gewicht	580 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
ISBN-10	1-108-00930-1 / 1108009301
ISBN-13	978-1-108-00930-0 / 9781108009300
Zustand	Neuware