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Welcome to The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals:1800-1900, a subject-inclusive, language-inclusive bibliography of
73,000 publications, 68,000 personal names, 6,300 issuing bodies, 2,400 publishing towns, 23,000 title pages, 2,000 subjects. Editor John S. North.
Soli Deo Gloria

 
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Reproduced by permission, Cambridge University Library
Interesting Record: Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser, The

“[Eliza Lynn] Linton was the first woman to join the staff of an English newspaper; she was hired by The Morning Chronicle in 1848” (VPR).

"Dickens worked for this publication as a court and parliamentary reporter" (Garlick and Harris, Victorian Journalism, p.203).

“In the years from 1844 to 1846 [Thackeray] was the principle book reviewer for The Morning Chronicle, earning about 20 pounds a month from that quarter” (Dudek, Literature and the Press).

“The first message to be transmitted by telegraph for a newspaper was in May 1845 for The Morning Chronicle along the London and South Western Railway Company’s line from Portsmouth to London” (Lee, The Origins of the Popular Press, 1855-1914, p.60).


The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers & Periodicals: 1800 - 1900 Series Three.
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