Brief description
The Penny Pickwick, Vol. II by T. P. Prest
Label
Edward Lloyd was a London publisher famous for his 'penny dreadfuls' (cheap, popular stories of adventure or horror for the working class) including 'Sweeney Todd'. Thomas Peckett Prest was a writer who worked for Lloyd producing, among other cheap fiction, knock-offs of Dickens's stories. Lloyd mirrored Dickens in many ways - not just copying Dickens's stories and catering to the working class audiences previously under-served by writers, but also both launched newspapers in the 1840s which survived well into the 1930s. Both were also acquainted with Dickens's friend Douglas Jerrold, whom Lloyd hired as his editor for Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper.
Collection
Library
Object number
[lib]441
Object type
book

The Penny Pickwick, Vol. II by T. P. Prest