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Newspapers from the Victorian Era published in England and America

View a choice selection of newspaper articles from Britain and America saved in a Victorian Scrapbook by George Burgess (1829-1905). George Burgess born in Staple Hill, Bristol travelled to America with his brother-in-law, shortly after leaving school, to finish his apprenticeship in stone cutting and marble works. while in America he learned about Phrenology, he return to England (for the third and last time) Christmas 1859 and in 1861 he set up a business as a professional Phrenologist in the shopping Arcades in Bristol where he practiced his profession for 40 years until his retirement in 1901.

Throughout his working life he had a passion for reading and writing and collected over 500 newspaper articles, on subjects that interested him, and stuck them into his scrapbook which has since been passed down from generation to generation and now transcribed and published on Nathanville for free viewing.

The Victorian era newspaper articles saved in his scrapbook covered the following topics:-

Family; Health; Education; Humour; Poetry; Politics; History; Religion; Science; Nature; Temperance and Victorian Culture.

A sample from each of these topics is reproduced below, read on....

The full transcripts and Original Copies can also be viewed on the Nathanville Genealogy website.

....Happy Reading

Victorian Family, People and Relationships

A Wife and Something to Boot

A Wife and Something to Boot

Victorian Health and Education

He Never Took It

He Never Took It - Published in a Victorian Newspaper 28 July 1888

Published 28 July 1888.

Victorian Humour

Looking on the Bright Side

Looking on The Bright Side

Victorian Poetry

Be off with you now by Charles Swain (1801-1874)

Be off with you now by Charles Swain (1801-1874)

Be off with you now a poem put to music and published in 1856; writen by Charles Swain (1801-1874), an English Poet born in Manchester, England.

Victorian Politics and History

Unmistakeable Evidence

Unmistakeable Evidence

Victorian Religion

Brought Down A Deluge

Brought Down A Deluge

Victorian Science and Nature

The Bottomless Pit in the Mammouth Cave of Kentucky

The Bottomless Pit in the Mammouth Cave of Kentucky

Temperance in the Victorian Era

Drinks All Round

Drinks All Round

Victorian Culture, Life and Society

Extraordinary Suicide of John Francis Hobler 1835-1856

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE of John Francis Hobler (1835-1856)

Thanks to contributions from other readers and fellow Genealogists I learnt a lot about John Hobler and his family, a summary is given below:-

John Francis HOBLER (1835-1856) at age six John attended a Grammar School, High Street, Haverhill, Suffolk, England and was the youngest in his group. In 1851 (aged 15) John was living with his maternal Aunt at 101 Piccadilly Street, Manchester, Lancashire, England and was an engineering student; five years later he committed suicide!

At the time of his suicide John was living with his Uncle Charles Clay who was married to his mother's elder sister, Maria Boreham.

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Fanny Fern and Mary Sewell

Two famous 19th century authors featured here:-

1. From America - Fanny Fern, renowned writer and author who regularly had articles published in American newspapers and

2. From England - Mary Sewell (mother of Anna Sewell, famous for Black Beauty) who wrote Mother's Last Words which sold over a million copies.
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Victorian newspaper reporting in Britain and America was different to today's reporting style. To me they read more like today's blog sites rather than a newspaper reporting factual events!

The Victorian newspaper articles seem to be written more like mini-stories, often humorous, to entertain the reader rather than be just informative. I know newspapers these days tend to do this to some extent and therefore you can't always believe what you read but the Victorian's seem to have had it down to a fine out, sometimes not such a fine art considering the poor grammar in some of the American publications.

Nevertheless, I'd be interested to know which article above you found the best read.

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