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Alfred Harmsworth's attack on penny dreadfuls

Boys Friend #1 (1895)

29th January 1895

 

 

Here is another quite vicious attack on penny dreadfuls from Alfred Harmsworth from his first editorial section within the first issue of Boys Friend.

In it he describes "the trickery and deception which lurk behind these pests of the boys paper world." and "the miserable, beer-swilling wretches who write their stupid, lying stories."

Read the whole editorial, it makes for an interesting five minute read.