Arthur Hall (stationer)

Arthur Hall was a nineteenth-century publisher and writer based in Paternoster Row, London.

In 1848 he took over Sharpe's London Magazine from T. B. Sharpe, who had founded it in 1845 as a weekly publication. Hall made it a monthly, and moved it upmarket; the editor at the time was Frank Smedley.[1] It appeared as Journal rather than Magazine from 1849 to 1852.[2] At this time Hall went into business with George Virtue, forming Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co.[3] In the 1850s the firm published the "Hofland Library", a large collection of the juvenile works of Barbara Hofland.[4]

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  1. ^ John Sutherland, The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction, p. 569; Google Books.
  2. ^ Laurel Brake, Marysa Demoor, Dictionary of Nineteenth-century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland (2009), p. 569; Google Books.
  3. ^ University of Guelph page. Archived February 8, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Julia Briggs, Dennis Butts, Matthew Orville Grenby, Popular Children's Literature in Britain (2008), pp. 117–8; Google Books.
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