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See also:KNIGHT, See also:CHARLES (1791-1873) , See also:English publisher and author, the son of a bookseller and printer at See also:Windsor, was See also:born on the 15th of See also:March 1791. He was apprenticed to his See also:father, but on the completion of his indentures he took up journalism and interested himself in several newspaper speculations. In 1823, in See also:conjunction with See also:friends he had made as publisher (182o-1821) of The Etonian, he started Knight's Quarterly See also:Magazine, to which W. M. See also:Praed, See also:Derwent See also:Coleridge and See also:Macaulay contributed. The venture was brought to a See also:close with its See also:sixth number, but it initiated for Knight a career as publisher and author which extended over See also:forty years. In 1827 Knight was compelled to give up his See also:publishing business, and became the See also:superintendent of the publications of the Society for the See also:Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, for which he projected and edited The See also:British Almanack and See also:Companion, begun in 1828. In 1829 he resumed business on his own See also:account with the publication of The Library of Entertaining Knowledge, See also:writing several volumes of the See also:series himself. In 1832 and 1833 he started The See also:Penny Magazine and
The .Penny Cyclopaedia, both of which had a large circulation. The Penny Cyclopaedia, however, on account of the heavy See also:excise See also:duty, was only completed in 1844 at a See also:great pecuniary See also:sacrifice. Besides many illustrated See also:editions of See also:standard See also:works, including in 1842 The Pictorial See also:Shakespeare, which had appeared in parts (1838-1841), Knight published a variety of illustrated works, such as Old See also:England and The See also:Land we Live in. He also undertook the series known as Weekly Volumes. He himself contributed the first See also:volume, a See also:biography of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Caxton. Many famous books, See also:Miss See also:Martineau's Tales, Mrs See also:Jameson's See also:Early See also:Italian Painters and G. H. See also:Lewes's See also:Biographical See also:History of See also:Philosophy, appeared for the first See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time in this series. In 1853 he became editor of The English Cyclopaedia, which was practically only a revision of The Penny Cyclopaedia, and at about the same time he began his Popular History of England (8 vols., 1856-1862). In 1864 he withdrew from the business of publisher, but he continued to write nearly to the close of his See also:long See also:life, publishing The Shadows of the Old Booksellers (1865), an autobiography under the See also:title Passages of a Working Life during See also:Half a See also:Century (2 vols., 1864-x863), and an See also:historical novel, Begg'd at See also:Court (1867). He died at Addlestone, See also:Surrey, on the 9th of March 1873.
See A. A. Clowes, Knight, a See also:Sketch (I892); and F. Espinasse, in The Critic (May 186o).
End of Article: KNIGHT, CHARLES (1791-1873)
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