Sir George Newnes

Thomas Vranken (University of British Columbia)

Ed. by Grace Moore, University of Otago
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.07: English Writing and Culture of the Victorian Period, 1837-1901.
Vol. editors: Gillian Fenwick (University of Toronto), Jessica Gossling (Goldsmiths College, University of London)

Dates

Born 13 Mar 1851
Died 9 Jun 1910
Activity 1881-1910

Places

Born in England
Active in England

Activities

Primary

Editor
Journalist
Publisher

Resources

Newnes' Works

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A central editor, publisher, and periodical proprietor of late nineteenth-century Britain, George Newnes is remembered today principally for his contribution to the rise of New Journalism. He is also well-known for his periodicals, the most successful of which were the hugely-popular penny weekly

Tit-Bits

and the highly-influential illustrated monthly

The Strand Magazine

(the journal that made Sherlock Holmes a cultural phenomenon).

Born on March 13, 1851, George Newnes grew up in Matlock Bath, a small spa town in the Peak District – a rural area of Northern England between Manchester and Nottingham. His bookish father, the Reverend Thomas Mold Newnes, was a Congregational minister. His mother, Sarah Urquhart, came from a Scottish family of “modest fortune”, and delighted in treating

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Citation: Vranken, Thomas. "Sir George Newnes". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 19 March 2020 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3329, accessed 20 April 2024.]

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