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E.O. Hoppé. High Street in Lyme Regis, Dorsetshire, 1925

The Illustrated London News, first published in 1842, was the world’s first illustrated weekly news magazine. The paper featured shocking and sometimes embroidered stories meant to draw the reader in and create a stir. This illustration is from an article titled The Peasantry of Dorsetshire. The writer depicts a grim picture of life in the laborer’s cottage: “The want of proper ventilation in these houses must be to the last degree detrimental to the health of the inhabitants; the atmosphere, especially of the sleeping apartments, to an unpracticed nose is almost insupportable… [the] furniture is such as may be expected from the description I have given of the place—a rickety table and two or three foundered chairs generally forming the extent of the upholstery. Want, famine, and misery, are the features of the village…” (pg. 156). Call number: Folio AP4 .I29 http://ow.ly/PVYG30hlRl4 * * * #KislakCenter #Pennlibraries #librariesofinstagram #specialcollections #rarebooks #illustration #cottage #England #London #Dorsetshire #magazine #woodengraving

Ladies Pocket Magazine 1828

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