The Sunday Times

Literary/ Cultural Context Note

Litencyc Editors (Independent Scholar - Europe)
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The Sunday Times

had a brief pre-history as first

The New Observer

and then

The Independent Observer

, beginning publication in the Spring of 1821. In the last of a series of attempts to associate itself with more established publications, although it had no institutional connection to either

The Observer

or

The Times

, it was re-launched by Henry White in October 1822 as The Sunday Times, and the following year sold to radical politician Daniel Whittle Harvey. It soon developed a respectable reputation for measured, dignified writing. During the subsequent decades, it was also innovative in several ways: in 1838, after Queen Victoria's coronation, it published the largest wood illustration ever before seen in a British newspaper. A few years later, it pioneered what was to become a huge…

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Citation: Editors, Litencyc. "The Sunday Times". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 30 August 2013 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=1110, accessed 19 March 2024.]

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