From the Penny Dreadful to the Ha'Penny Dreadfuller

Robert J. Kirkpatrick

From the Penny Dreadful 

to the Ha'Penny Dreadfuller

A bibliographic history of the

Boys' Periodical in Britain

1762-1950

The British Library & Oak Knoll Press

London, U.K. & New Castle, Delaware, U.S.A.

X + 576 pages, 2013

ISBN 978-0-7123-0954-7 (British Library)

ISBN 978-1-58456-318-1 (Oak Knoll Press)

Preface
Acknowledgements

Introduction
     Terminology
     Brief history
     Style and content
     Hacks and Penny-A-Liners
          Percy B. St. John and Vane Ireton St. John
          Edward Viles and Walter Viles
          William Stephens Hayward
          Charles Stevens and Charles H. Ross
     Disapproval and moral censure
     America
     Previous studies and bibliographies
Cover reproductions

Chapter 1. From virtue to villainy - Early juvenile periodicals and Penny-bloods
     Early juvenile periodicals : The years up to 1800
     1800-1850
     1850-1900
     Penny Bloods
     Edward Lloyd
     G.W.M. Reynolds

Chapter 2. Instructing the middle classes - Periodicals for boys, 1800-1870
     Early 19th Century periodicals
     Samuel O. Beeton
     Spreading the news
     W.H.G. Kingston
     George Routledge
     Henry Vickers
     The beginnings of sensationalism

Chapter 3. The story paper defined - Edwin J. Brett
     Bracebridge Hemyng and Jack Harkaway

Chapter 4. Bitter rivalry - The Emmett brothers and Charles Fox
     The Emmett family
     The Emmett papers
     Charles Fox

Chapter 5. Friendly rivalry - Ralph Rollington, Guy Rayner and William Lucas
     "Ralph Rollington"
     "Guy Rayner"
     William Lucas, T.H. Roberts, Edwin Harcourt Burrage and the "Best for boys" Publishing
          Company
     The Burrage family

Chapter 6. From plagiarism to pulps - American story papers, the dime novel and the Aldine
Publishing Company
     Early american juvenile periodicals
     American story papers and pamphlet novels
     The dime novel
     Dime novel authors
     Dime novel characters
     Criticism of dime fiction
     Dime novel publishers
          Beadle & Adams
          Street & Smith
          George P. Munro
          Norman L. Munro
          Frank Tousey
          Frank Lestie
          Other publishers
     Pulps
     The Aldine Publishing Company

Chapter 7. Usurping the Dreadful - Early counterattacks, the Boy's Own Paper, Young England
and Chums
     The Religious Tract Society and the Boy's Own Paper
     The Sunday School Union and Young England
     Andrew Melrose
     Cassell & Co. and Chums

Chapter 8. Fishing for scraps - Other publishers and Boys' papers, 1870-1900
     John Dicks
     Henry Wells Jackson
     Alfred Ritchie
     Kingston, Henty and the Union Jack
     Religious and minority periodicals
     Other Boys' Papers
     Charles Shurey

Chapter 9. Top of the form - Public school periodicals, George Newnes and the Captain
     Eton magazines
     Rugby magazines
     Other school magazines - Westminster and Harrow
     Generic public school periodicals
     George Newnes and the Captain

Chapter 10. Cheap as Chips - Alfred Harmsworth and the Amalgamated Press
     Boys' Papers
     Charles Hamilton
     Edwy Searles Brooks
     Pocket Libraries

Chapter 11. Monopoly denied - Harmsworth's competitors and other Boys' Papers, 1900-1950
     James Henderson
     Trapps Holmes
     D.C. Thomson and the "Big Five"
     Lloyd's
     C. Arthur Pearson
     Other publishers
     Gerald G. Swan

Conclusion
Afterword

Appendix 1. Alphabetical checklist of boys' periodicals, 1762-1959
Appendix 2. Chronology of boys' periodicals, 1762-1950
Appendix 3. Checklist of juvenile periodicals, 1751-1900
Bibliography
     Bibliographies and checklists
     Books
     Dissertations
     Articles and essays
Index of titles
Index of names