The World

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The World

British newspaper

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lifestyle journalism
Origins
An issue of The World (May 25, 1884, page 11) shows this precursor of the woman’s page: the “World of Women” column. By the 1890s, women’s pages were a definite feature of larger papers, publishing information about clubs, society, and other topics of interest to women. And in…
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An issue of The World (May 25, 1884, page 11) shows this precursor of the woman’s page: the “World of Women” column. By the 1890s, women’s pages were a definite feature of larger papers, publishing information about clubs, society, and other topics of interest to women. And in…
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Edmund Hodgson Yates
…first relatively respectable society paper, The World. This was a journal reporting the activities and associations of socially prominent persons. As editor, Yates strove to elevate The World above the level usual for this type of publication—i.e., that of a scurrilous and scandalous journal used by the editors for making…
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…first relatively respectable society paper, The World. This was a journal reporting the activities and associations of socially prominent persons. As editor, Yates strove to elevate The World above the level usual for this type of publication—i.e., that of a scurrilous and scandalous journal used by the editors for making…
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