Family Herald
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The Family Herald: A Domestic Magazine of Useful Information & Amusement (1843-1940) was a weekly story paper established by James Elishama Smith
in 1843. Initially a penny weekly, it later sold at 2d. Contributors included James George Stuart Burges Bohn
, Charlotte Mary Brame
(1836-84), Bertha Henry Buxton
, William Carpenter
, James Hain Friswell
, Fanny Aikin Kortright (1821-1900), Watts Phillips (1825-74), Frederick William Robinson (1830-1901), Henrietta Stannard (1856-1911), and Annie Tinsley (1808-85).
James Elishama Smith
James Elishama Smith, often called Shepherd Smith was a British journalist and religious writer.Smith studied at Glasgow University. Hearing Edward Irving preach in 1828, he became a millenarian and associated with followers of Joanna Southcott. For a couple of years he became a Christian...
in 1843. Initially a penny weekly, it later sold at 2d. Contributors included James George Stuart Burges Bohn
James George Stuart Burges Bohn
James George Stuart Burges Bohn was a British bookseller and bibliographer.-Family:Bohn was son of John Bohn, a London bookseller, who died October 13, 1843, in his eighty-sixth year...
, Charlotte Mary Brame
Charlotte Mary Brame
Charlotte Mary Brame Charlotte Mary Brame Charlotte Mary Brame (usually known as Charlotte M. Brame, last name sometimes mistakenly given as Braeme; appeared under pseudonyms in America, notably Bertha M...
(1836-84), Bertha Henry Buxton
Bertha Henry Buxton
Bertha Henry Buxton was a British novelist and children's author.-Biography:Buxton was born on 26 July 1844, and when only a girl of eleven years amused herself by writing stories for her schoolfellows at Queen's College, Tufnell Park, London. Both her parents were Germans...
, William Carpenter
William Carpenter
William Carpenter may refer to:*William Carpenter , water colours of India*William Carpenter , Australian politician*William Carpenter, writer, American author...
, James Hain Friswell
James Hain Friswell
James Hain Friswell was an English essayist and novelist.He was born at Newport, Shropshire, son of William Friswell, of 93 Wimpole Street, London, attorney-at-law, and educated at Apsley School, near Woburn, Bedfordshire...
, Fanny Aikin Kortright (1821-1900), Watts Phillips (1825-74), Frederick William Robinson (1830-1901), Henrietta Stannard (1856-1911), and Annie Tinsley (1808-85).