Glances Back Through Seventy Years
Autobiographical and Other Reminiscences

This two-volume autobiography, published in 1893, describes the eventful and sometimes scandalous career of journalist and publisher Henry Vizetelly.

Henry Vizetelly (Author)

9781108009300, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 4 March 2010

456 pages
21.6 x 2.6 x 14 cm, 0.58 kg

This autobiography recalls the eventful career of the nineteenth-century publisher and journalist, Henry Vizetelly (1820–1894). Born in London, Vizetelly was apprenticed to a wood engraver as a young child. He entered the printing business and helped found two successful but short-lived newspapers, the Pictorial Times and the Illustrated Times. From 1865 Vizetelly worked in Paris and Berlin as a foreign correspondent for the Illustrated London News, and also wrote and published several books. He later became a publisher of foreign novels and gained notoriety for his translations of Emile Zola which challenged strict Victorian laws on obscenity and led to his prosecution and imprisonment. His book is a fascinating blend of public and personal history, providing an insight into the turbulent literary world of nineteenth-century Europe. Volume 2 begins in 1858 with the marriage of Princess Vicky and concludes with Vizetelly's return to England in 1878.

22. The French detective and his smart subordinate
23. An expedition to Homburg
24. The paper duty agitation
25. On board the Great Eastern during the explosion
26. A suspicious fire at Campden House
27. The Shakspeare tercentenary committee and Mr Thackeray
28. French apartments
29. Odd ways of getting a living in Paris
30. New Year's Day in Paris
31. European potentates in Paris
32. At the prefecture of police
33. With the court at Compiègne
34. On and about the boulevards
35. In Brittany
36. The Italian colony
37. Boulevardian journalists
38. In the vineyards of the Médoc
39. A conflagration among the Bordeaux shipping
40. The Pantin tragedy
41. At Troppman's execution
42. In the wake of Rory of the Hills.

Subject Areas: Publishing industry & book trade [KNTP]