^e.g. Wilkie Collins, "A Plea for Sunday Reform", The Leader, 27 September 1851. For identification of other contributions by Collins, see Kirk Beetz, Victorian Periodicals Review 15:1, Spring 1982, pp. 20–29
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leader, english, newspaper, this, article, about, 19th, century, weekly, 1973, 2017, daily, leader, chester, newspaper, leader, radical, weekly, newspaper, published, london, from, 1850, 1860, price, contents, founders, contributors, references, external, link. This article is about the 19th century weekly For the 1973 2017 daily see The Leader Chester newspaper The Leader was a radical weekly newspaper published in London from 1850 to 1860 at a price of 6d Contents 1 Founders 2 Contributors 3 References 4 External linksFounders EditGeorge Henry Lewes and Thornton Leigh Hunt founded The Leader in 1850 They had financial backing from Edmund Larken who was an unconventional clergyman looking for a vehicle for Christian liberal views 1 Others involved were George Dawson and Richard Congreve 2 After a year Larken and Holyoake took over the rest of the shares 3 Contributors EditLewes contributed theatre criticism under the pseudonym Vivian Later editors appear to have included Edward Frederick Smyth Pigott proprietor from the end of 1851 to 1860 3 and Frederick Guest Tomlins Contributors included Thomas Spencer Baynes 4 Wilkie Collins 5 George Eliot Andrew Halliday the future theatre manager John Hollingshead 1827 1904 the future politician James Mackenzie Maclean 1835 1906 the future anthropologist John McLennan Gerald Massey the art critic Henry Merritt 1822 1877 Edmund Ollier 1826 1886 Herbert Spencer and the political journalist Edward Michael Whitty 1827 1860 The paper carried correspondence from William Edward Forster proposing state farms and workshops and Barbara Bodichon on prostitution References Edit Rosemary Ashton G H Lewes An unconventional Victorian 2000 pp 88 9 Edward Royle Victorian Infidels the origins of the British secularist movement 1791 1866 1974 p 154 a b The Carlyle Letters TC to Joseph Neuburg 2 February 1852 footnote 2 DOI 10 1215 lt 18520202 TC JN 01 CL 27 25 28 ONDB e g Wilkie Collins A Plea for Sunday Reform The Leader 27 September 1851 For identification of other contributions by Collins see Kirk Beetz Victorian Periodicals Review 15 1 Spring 1982 pp 20 29External links EditShapshot Leader at nineteenth century serials edition Laurel Brake Town and Country the Northern Star The Leader and multiple editions The complete run of The Leader is available at the Nineteenth Century Serials Edition NCSE The Leader 1850 1859 NCSE This United Kingdom newspaper related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title The Leader English newspaper amp oldid 959850353, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
