Daily Telegraph first published

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Litencyc Editors (Independent Scholar - Europe)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.07: English Writing and Culture of the Victorian Period, 1837-1901.
Vol. editors: Gillian Fenwick (University of Toronto), Grace Moore (University of Otago)

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The very first issue of the Daily Telegraph and Courier, published on 29 June 1855, was not a great success. Printed primarily to allow Colonel Arthur Sleigh to air a grievance against the Duke of Cambridge, the future commander-in-chief of the British Army, it failed to even recoup its costs. However, the proprietor of the Sunday Times, Joseph Moses Levy, believed that there was an opening for a cheaper daily newspaper, since the current bestseller, The Times, cost ten pence, while The Daily News and The Morning Post cost five pence. Appointing his son, Edward Levy-Lawson, and Thornton Leigh Hunt, as its two first editors, their mandate was to develop a cheap but intelligent newspaper to outsell all …

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Citation: Editors, Litencyc. "Daily Telegraph first published". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 30 August 2013 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=253, accessed 23 November 2024.]

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