The New World (newspaper)

The New World was a weekly newspaper in New York, New York, in the United States, published from October 1839[1] to 1845 by J. Winchester.[2] The paper was founded and edited by Park Benjamin Sr. It billed itself as an apolitical "family newspaper",[3] featuring British and American literature[1] and religious discourses.[3] The paper's masthead read: "No pent-up Utica contracts our powers; The whole unbounded Continent is ours!", a quote originally attributed to Jonathan M. Sewall from his epilogue to Cato, a Tragedy in 1778.[4]

Not to be confused with the Alsatian Communist newspaper The New World.

Notable contributions include:

• Charles Dickens' Barnaby Rudge, reprinted in 1841 in weekly installments after its original appearance in Master Humphrey's Clock.[5]
• Thomas Carlyle's six-part lecture series On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History, printed in 1841.[6]
• Thomas Moore’s "Fifteen Songs," a collection of unpublished songs published in 1841, which were later released in The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore.[7]
• Anna Cora Mowatt’s complete play, Gulzara or The Persian Slave: 1 drama in Five Acts, in 1841.[8]
• E.P. Hurlbut's "The Rights of Woman," later published in his work, Essays on Human Rights and their Political Guaranties in 1845.[9] Hurlbut knew Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Declaration of Sentiments from the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 follows many of the examples set forth in "The Rights of Woman."[10]
• G.P.R. James' complete novels, The Jacquerie and Morley Ernstein; or, The Tenants of the Heart, both published in extra editions in 1842.[11][12]
• Sarah Stickney Ellis' complete novel, Summer and Winter in the Pyrenees.[13]

References

1. NYR (1841), p. 543. sfnp error: no target: CITEREFNYR1841 (help)
2. "New York County (NY) newspapers on microfilm at NYSL", New York State Library, Albany: New York State Library.
3. NYR (1841), p. 544. sfnp error: no target: CITEREFNYR1841 (help)
4. "Notes and Queries", The Ladies' Repository, 17 (3): 186, March 1857
5. "The New World, v.II, no. 2, Whole number 42 Saturday, March 20, 1841, (Incomplete).", digital.library.villanova.edu, retrieved February 20, 2017.
6. "The New World, v. II, no. 15, Whole Number 45, Saturday, April 10, 1841.", digital.library.villanova.edu, retrieved February 20, 2017.
7. "The New World, v. II, no. 16, Whole Number 46, Saturday, April 17, 1841.", digital.library.villanova.edu, retrieved February 20, 2017.
8. "The New World, v. II, no. 17, Whole Number 47, Saturday, April 24, 1841.", digital.library.villanova.edu, retrieved February 21, 2017.
9. "The New World, Quarto Edition, v. II, no. 19, Whole Number 49, Saturday, May 8, 1841.", digital.library.villanova.edu, retrieved April 4, 2017.
10. Gordon, Ann, ed. (2001). The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: In the school of anti-slavery, 1840 to 1866. Rutgers University Press. p. 86..
11. "The New World, Extra First, no. ​19 ¹⁄₂, Whole Number ​101 ¹⁄₂, Monday, May 16, 1842.", digital.library.villanova.edu, retrieved February 21, 2017.
12. "The New World, Extras 3, 4 & 5, Whole Number ​105 ¹⁄₂, Wednesday, June 8, 1842.", digital.library.villanova.edu, retrieved February 21, 2017
13. "The New World, Extra No. 6, Whole Number ​107 ¹⁄₂, Tuesday, June 21, 1842.", digital.library.villanova.edu, retrieved April 4, 2017

External links

• The New World: A Weekly Family Journal of Popular Literature, Science, Art, and News, Vol. VIII, New York: E. Winchester, 1844.
• The New World: A Weekly Family Journal of Popular Literature, Science, Art, and News, Vol. IX, New York: E. Winchester, 1844.
• "Prospectus of The New World", New York Review, Vol. VIII, No. xvi, New York: Robert Craighead for Alexander V. Blake, April 1841.
• The New World at the Digital Library@Villanova University