Edwin Brett
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Edwin John Brett was a Victorian editor and publisher of boys' magazines, romantic fiction and "penny dreadfuls" who pioneered the weekly format of serialised and sensational fiction.
Vault of Edwin John Brett in the Circle of Lebanon at Highgate Cemetery
Boys of England
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Boys of England was a British boys' periodical issued weekly from 1866 to 1899, and has been called "the leading boys' periodical of the nineteenth century".
Edwin Brett
…penny-dreadful' fiction featuring young heroes in tales which were often brutal, glamorising highwaymen and burglars. In 1866 he started his own periodical, Boys of England, at 173 Fleet Street, a weekly magazine blending thrilling fiction and factual articles which was published for 33 years. Articles exhorted boys to…
Boys of England cover