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Glances Back Through Seventy Years

Glances Back Through Seventy Years

Glances Back Through Seventy Years

Autobiographical and Other Reminiscences
Volume 1:
Henry Vizetelly
March 2010
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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 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.

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    March 2010
    Paperback
    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.
      Author
    • Henry Vizetelly