Glances Back Through Seventy Years
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.
Product details
March 2010Paperback
9781108009294
460 pages
216 × 140 × 26 mm
0.58kg
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Table of Contents
- 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.