Once A Week was a British weekly illustrated literary magazine published by Bradbury & Evans from 1859 to 1880. [1] According to John Sutherland, "[h]istorically the magazine's main achievement was to provide an outlet for [an] innovative group of illustrators [in] the 1860s." [2]
The magazine was founded because of a dispute between Bradbury and Evans and Charles Dickens. [2] Bradbury and Evans had been Dickens' publisher since 1844, including publishing his magazine Household Words . In 1859, Bradbury and Evans refused to carry an advertisement by Dickens explaining why he had broken with Mrs. Dickens. [2] In consequence, Dickens stopped work on Household Words and founded a new magazine, All The Year Round (first published 30 April 1859) which he decided would be editorially independent of any publisher. [2] Bradbury and Evans responded by founding Once A Week, with veteran editor and abolitionist hero Samuel Lucas at the head. [2]
The magazine differed from Household Words in that it was more expensive and it was illustrated. [2] Notable illustrators included John Leech, Hablot K. Browne, Frederick Sandys, Holman Hunt, John Tenniel and George du Maurier. [2] [3] Notable writers included Mark Lemon, Shirley Brooks, Harriet Martineau (who wrote here under the pseudonym "From the Mountain"), and Tom Taylor. [2] Many of the illustrators and writers also worked for Punch, another Bradbury and Evans literary magazine. [2] Helen Hoppner Coode, Punch's first woman cartoonist, also contributed illustrations to Once a Week, [4] this included drawings for the poem "Fairy May" written by C. W. Goodhart which was printed in the magazine in 1859. [5]
The magazine's central feature was serial fiction; among other works, it published Charles Reade's A Good Fight, George Meredith's Evan Harrington and Charles Felix's The Notting Hill Mystery , an early detective novel. [2] [6] Woman writers whose work was featured in the magazine included Isabella Blagden, and M.E. Braddon. [2] [3]
After Lucas died in 1865, his assistant Edward Walford succeeded him as editor. [7] However, the magazine went into decline. Although it had strong sales it was probably under-priced. [2] The magazine was purchased by James Rice, who owned it until 1873 when it was bought by George Manville Fenn; by then it was "a shadow of its former self". Publication ceased in 1880. [2]
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English novelist and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today.
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George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier was a Franco-British cartoonist and writer known for work in Punch and a Gothic novel Trilby, featuring the character Svengali. His son was the actor Sir Gerald du Maurier. The writers Angela du Maurier and Dame Daphne du Maurier and the artist Jeanne du Maurier were all granddaughters of George. He was also father of Sylvia Llewelyn Davies and grandfather of the five boys who inspired J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan.
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1863.
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1862.
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Julia Kavanagh was an Irish novelist, born at Thurles in Tipperary, Ireland—then part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Her numerous contributions to literature have classified her as one of the non-canonical minor novelist of the Victorian period (1837–1901). Although she is mainly known for the novel and tales she wrote, she also published important non-fiction works that explored the theme of female political, moral and philosophical contributions to society. The appeal of her works is represented by the fact that several of her works have been translated into French, German, Italian and Swedish. Her texts also reached North America, where some of her works appeared in Littell's Living Age, an American magazine. Moreover, she was known to celebrated writers of domestic fiction such as Charles Dickens.
All the Year Round was a Victorian periodical, being a British weekly literary magazine founded and owned by Charles Dickens, published between 1859 and 1895 throughout the United Kingdom. Edited by Dickens, it was the direct successor to his previous publication Household Words, abandoned due to differences with his former publisher.
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William Bradbury was an English printer and publisher. He is known for his work as a partner from 1830 in Bradbury and Evans, who printed the works of a number of major novelists such as Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray, as well as leading periodicals such as Punch, which they also owned.
William Hardwick Bradbury was a printer and publisher and a partner in the firm Bradbury, Evans & Co.
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