By November 1822, the British reading public had already voraciously consumed both Walter Scott s expensive novels and Rudolf Ackermann s exquisite lithographs. The next decade, referred to by some scholars as dormant and unproductive, is in fact bursting with "Forget Me Nots, Friendship s Offerings, Keepsakes, " and "Literary Souvenirs." By wrapping literature, poetry, and art into an alluring package, editors and publishers saturated the market with a new, popular, and best-selling genre, the literary annual. In Forget Me Not, KatherineD. Harris assesses the phenomenal rise of the annual...
By November 1822, the British reading public had already voraciously consumed both Walter Scott s expensive novels and Rudolf Ackermann s exquisite li...
