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Early British Periodicals 
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Description: Contains the full text of hundreds of periodicals detailing everyday British life from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth. The content traces the development and growth of the periodical press in Britain from its origins in the 17th century through to the Victorian 'age of periodicals' and beyond. These titles cover history, literature, slavery, psychology, popular science, Celtic folklore, and religion.
Among the periodicals included in British Periodicals are titles founded, edited or regularly contributed to by a host of important figures - Walter Bagehot, Aubrey Beardsley, Annie Besant, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Frances Power Cobbe, William Cobbett, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Henry Fielding, Ford Madox Ford, Oliver Goldsmith, Leigh Hunt, Jerome K. Jerome, Samuel Johnson, Sir Roger L'Estrange, G. H. Lewes, Harriet Martineau, Edward Moore, John Morley, John Henry Newman, Margaret Oliphant, W. M. Rossetti, Sir Richard Steele and Tobias Smollett to name but a few. British Periodicals provides access to the original versions of landmark texts like De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Carlyle's Sartor Resartus, Cobbett's Rural Rides, Bagehot's The English Constitution, Gaskell's North and South and William James's essay 'What is an Emotion?'.
A wide array of different types of periodical are represented, from magisterial quarterlies and scholarly and professional organs through to coterie art periodicals, penny weeklies and illustrated family magazines.
Coverage: Various Dates
Subject(s)
History, Genealogy & Archives
Literature & Language
Religion & Philosophy
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