 | About Harper's Weekly (America) 1857
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Harper's Weekly, A Journal of Civilization was a political magazine based in New York City.
In 1817, two young brothers, James Harper and John Harper , started a small printing firm in New York. Two other brothers, Joseph Harper and Fletcher Harper, joined the company and by 1825 Harper & Brothers was the largest book publisher in the United States.
Fletcher Harper became aware of the success in Britain of the London Illustrated News and in response in 1850 launched Harper's Monthly. Initially edited by Henry Raymond, the journal concentrated on serialization as an effective format for publishers to take chances on new authors and experimental writing. Harper’s New Monthly Magazine printed a chapter of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick in October 1851 to promote the forthcoming novel, and Harper periodicals were first to serialize Charles Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend (1865).
In 1857 the company also began publishing Harper's Weekly. It became the leading weekly newspaper in the United States. It covered politics, domestic and foreign news, and included fiction, essays, humor and illustrations. The weekly is famous as the home base for the father of the modern American political carton Thomas Nast, who drew for Harper's 1859-1860, and from 1862 to 1886. By 1860, the Weekly's circulation had reached 100,000.It ceased in 1916.
About Harper's Weekly, A Journal of Civilization .
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