The Cheap Magazine, subtitled "The Poor Man's Fireside Companion", was a fourpenny Haddington monthly published from 1813 to 1815 by George Miller (1771–1835), an East Lothian printer. As "one of the first attempts to diffuse a pure and useful literature among the less educated portion of Scotland", this effort foreshadowed later publications such as Chambers's Edinburgh Journal and the Penny Magazine.[1] Yet a cheap price required a large circulation, and Miller's attempt to sustain a large readership without taking any definite religious position ended in financial failure.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Timperley, Charles Henry, A Dictionary of Printers and Printing, 1839, p. 845
  2. ↑ Altick, Richard D., The English Common Reader, 2nd ed., 1998, p. 320
  • George Miller, Later Struggles in the Journey of Life; or, the Afternoon of my Days: being the Retrospection of a Sexagenarian, 1833
  • J. O., Notes and Queries 6th series, 5 (1882), pp. 495–6
  • T. Fisher Unwin, Notes and Queries 10th series, 12 (1909), pp. 1–3, 42–44, 474


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