Glances Back Through Seventy Years 2 Volume Paperback Set: Volume SET

Autobiographical and Other Reminiscences

Henry Vizetelly (Autor)

Media-Kombination

909 Seiten

2010
Cambridge University Press
9781108009317 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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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 political, social and personal history, providing an insight into the turbulent literary world of nineteenth-century Europe.

Inhalt

Volume I: 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; Volume II: 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.2.2010
• Reihe/Serie: Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries
• Verlagsort: Cambridge
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 250 x 323 mm
• Gewicht: 1800 g
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
• ISBN-13: 9781108009317 / 9781108009317
• Zustand: Neuware