Website of the Week (WoW) #123: Price One Penny
Here’s a database of Victorian cheap reads browsable by authors, works, publishers, periodicals, or libraries that have a copy of the work. Penny bloods are novels published either in penny periodicals of varying sizes or in weekly autonomous penny numbers.
Price One Penny – Cheap Literature 1837-1860
www.english.cam.ac.uk
Welcome to Price One Penny: Cheap Literature, 1837-1860 (POP). It contains a database which catalogues early Victorian penny fiction and thereby enables easy access to surviving copies and accurate bibliographic information. It is peer-reviewed and aggregated into NINES.