CHARLES KNIGHT BIOGRAPHY

KNIGHT, CHARLES (1791-1873). —Publisher and writer, born at Windsor, where his f. . was a bookseller. After serving his apprenticeship with him he went to London, and in 1823 started business as a publisher, and co-operated effectively with Brougham and others in connection with The Society for Diffusing Useful Knowledge. He was publisher for the Society, and issued The Penny Magazine , Penny Cyclopædia , Pictorial History of England , etc. He ed. with success The Pictorial Shakespeare , and was the author of a vol. of essays, Once upon a Time , an autobiography, Passages from a Working Life (1863), a History of the Thirty Years' Peace , which was completed by Miss Harriet Martineau, and various other works.