Fleet Street in the 19th century was home to a variety of publishing interests - expensive newspapers, periodicals and books aimed at the upper classes; but more importantly radical publishers who campaigned for political reform, a free press and the repeal of newspaper taxes; and a growing market in cheap and sensational literature - penny bloods, story papers and popular magazines and books aimed at the masses. This was Bohemian Fleet Street - which took in not just Fleet Street itself, along with its courts and alleyways, but also neighbouring thoroughfares such as the Strand, Holywell...
Fleet Street in the 19th century was home to a variety of publishing interests - expensive newspapers, periodicals and books aimed at the upper classe...
G.A. Henty (1832-1902) was one of the most prolific and popular writers for boys of his era, famous for his historical and adventure stories of which just over 80 appeared as hardback books. His contemporaries included W.H.G. Kingston (1814-1880), Captain Mayne Reid (1818-1883), R.M. Ballantyne (1825-1894), and George Manville Fenn (1831-1909). Between them, Henty included, they wrote around 550 novels for boys, although surprisingly, given the growing popularity of the school story throughout the second half of the 19th century - fired by the publication of Thomas Hughes' Tom Brown's...
G.A. Henty (1832-1902) was one of the most prolific and popular writers for boys of his era, famous for his historical and adventure stories of which ...
