Category:The Juvenile Scrap-Book
Title: The Juvenile Scrap-Book
Editor: Sarah Stickney Ellis
Publisher: Fisher & Sons
The Juvenile Scrap-Book was an annual publication distributed before the Christmas season from 1836 to 1850. It was originally published by Fisher, Son & Co, so it was also known as Fisher’s Juvenile Scrap-Book. However, in its last two years it was published by Peter Jackson. The journal had several different editors throughout its production period. Bernard Barton was the editor from 1836 to 1839. However, Sarah Stickney Ellis became the editor for the remainder of the publications. Agnes Strickland joined Ellis as a co-editor in 1937.[1]
Barton "openly admitted” that the journal began because “his task had been to produce a text suitable to a collection of secondhand engravings handed him by the publisher, and this practice was continued throughout the life of this annual.”[2] This meant that the engravings in the publication were not always suitable to the audience.
The audience for the publication was youth, so it had short stories, poetry and black-and-white engravings in each publication in order “to render it an attractive offering for the Young, both with regard to its embellishments and literary matter.”[3] The editors contributed most of the stories to each publications, but they wanted the tone of the work to be “found . . . in accordance with the spirit of Christianity, and to be calculated to promote the improvement, while it ministers to the amusement, of those into whose hands it may fall."[4]
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Submitted by: Hasna, Ashley: section 1, Winter 2011
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