Category:Routledge's Every Boy's Annual
Title: Routledge's Every Boy's Annual
Editor: Edmund Routledge
Publisher: George Routledge and Sons (1873); Routledge, Warne and Routledge
Routledge’s Every Boy’s Annual was published yearly as a book with intricate engravings that accompanied almost every story. This collection of stories for boys is full of wild adventures, natural history, sports, European heroes, and descriptions of modern wonders, which taught life skills connected to becoming men in Victorian England. This collection was printed in annual form because “the periodical form of publication must necessarily be inconvenient to many purchasers.” [1] Every Boy’s Annual was started by Edmund Routledge in his father’s publishing house when he was only nineteen years old. At such a young age, Edmund was an ideal editor for collecting stories that interested boys because he still had not fully claimed adulthood himself. The annual “ran for twenty-eight years until it was finally merged with another boys' magazine in 1889.”[2]
Notes
Submitted by: Wilson, Ellen: section 1, Winter 2009 and Lystrup, Dane: section 1, Fall 2014
Articles in category "Routledge's Every Boy's Annual"
The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
