Write a short note on development and innovation in the printing technology in 19th century.(5 marks)
CLASS 10 PRINT CULTURE
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1) The Grimm Brothers in Germany spent years compiling traditional folk tales gathered from peasants.
2) Penny magazines were especially meant for women, as were manuals teaching proper behaviour and housekeeping.
3) Some of the best novelist were women: Jane Austen, the Bronte Sisters, George Eliot.
4) Lending libraries in England became instruments for educating white-collar workers, artisans,and lower middle-class people. They were political tracts and autobiographies in large numbers.
5) By the mid-nineteenth century, Richard M. Hoe of New York had perfected the power-drivsn cylindrical press. Thanks was capable of printing 8000 sheets per hour. It is useful for printing newspapers.
6) In 1920s, in England, popular works were sold in cheap series, called the "Shilling Series".