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recalled the publisher's desire for a blend of the human interest and genial humour of Dickens
with the plot-weaving of G. W. M. Reynolds
.
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She indeed opens with a Dickensian flourish, conjuring...
Timeline
7 November 1846
G. W. M. Reynolds
and J. Dicks
launched the weekly Reynolds's Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, Science and Art. It ran until 14 June 1869, in a new series from 1848.
1848
John Dicks
established his own publishing house in London with G. W. M. Reynolds
.
May 1850
Reynolds's Weekly News was launched by George Reynolds
as a radical Sunday paper of international news, designed to serve the cause of freedom and democracy.