The Black Dwarf (1817–1824) was a satirical radical journal of early 19th century Britain.[1] It was published by Thomas Jonathan Wooler, starting in January 1817 as an eight-page newspaper, then later becoming a 32-page pamphlet. It was priced at 4d a week until the Six Acts brought in by the Government in 1819 to suppress radical unrest forced a price increase to 6d. In 1819 it was selling in issues of roughly 12,000 to working people such as James Wilson at a time when the reputable upper-middle class journal Blackwood's Magazine sold in issues of roughly 4,000 copies.
- ^ Brake, Laurel; Demoor, Marysa, eds. (2009). "Black Dwarf (1817–1824)". Dictionary of Nineteenth-century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland. Academia Press. p. 57–58.
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