Category:Cockney Adventures and Tales of London Life
Title: Cockney Adventures and Tales of London Life
Editor: Renton Nicholson
Publisher: William Mark Clark
Cockney Adventures and Tales of London Life was a weekly periodical. Each issue contained a short story capturing the genuine feeling for the flavor of cockney life, which was mostly given by the inclusion of the cockney dialect within the text itself. Its short fiction stories were, for the most part, humorous in nature, including trivial encounters of odd characters, questionable women, and altogether imperfect human beings.
Renton Nicholson, the author of each short fiction found in these weekly issues, prided himself on his “light” portrayal of the immorality of man: "The object of the Author of this work has been, as his first announcement implied, to elicit the joy-gleaming smile from the miserable, to dispel the sorrowing cloud from the melancholy in short, to provoke the cachinnation of the million. In doing so, he has not taken the trouble to travel far a field for material; the characters, scenes, and incidents, all having been drawn from metropolitan life, viewed in its real but its brightest state. There are always two sides both to a picture and subject, the dark and the light. The Author of this book flatters himself that he has taken the light, and therefore the most charitable side, in illustrating the follies human flesh is heir to." [1]
Each issue began with an illustration by an unknown artist. The periodical was published by William Mark Clark and Printed by Joseph Last.
Notes
Submitted by: Clonts, Myles: section 1, Winter 2013
Articles in category "Cockney Adventures and Tales of London Life"
The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
