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The Ladies Diary, published 1704-1840, eschewed astrology and prediction for mathematical problems, typically including enigmas, queries, and the answers to the previous year's questions. On the final pages of the 1768, 1821, and 1822 Diary, the…

Though Ackermann emigrated to London in the 1780s and became a naturalized citizen in 1809, he never cut ties with her German roots. Ackermann admittedly borrowed from the German tradition of the “Taschenbuch,” or pocket-book, “a small book, adapted…

To increase sales, by 1830 publishers separated the literary annual into sub-genres, including the comic annual, religious annual, musical annual, landscape annual and juvenile annual. In 1830 several musical annuals appeared, including Apollo’s Gift…

By 1840 in England, the number of literary annuals fell to thirty-five with a slow, general decline each year until 1857 when only three British titles were published. Before their demise, the British publishers attempted gimmicks in publishing to…

By 1840 in England, the number of literary annuals fell to thirty-five with a slow, general decline each year until 1857 when only three British titles were published. Before their demise, the British publishers attempted gimmicks in publishing to…

The Bengal Annual (1830-1837) was the only British literary annual produced and published in Calcutta, India, extending the boundaries of home to Britain’s colonial empire by including both British and Indian authors, despite the editor articulating…

In 350 pages of this volume, only 14 pages were dedicated to Indian authors (both poetry and prose). Despite the bombastic and colonial nationalism apparent in the opening essay, "The Literati of British India," the editor David Lester Richardson,…

The Oriental Annual (published 1834-1840), in contrast to The Bengal Annual, was published in London and filled with steel plate engravings of various scenes in India and ekphrastic poetry and prose to accompany those images. The stamped leather…

The Orientalist for 1841, a continuation of The Oriental Annual, continued the tradition of stamped leather boards with this detail of wrapping and stamping the board edges but eschewed the gild paper edges (or perhaps the edges were cut for…

The Bengal Annual lacked steel plate engravings of the detail offered in The Oriental Annual, which focused on scenes that included the exotic and eroticized "other" such as this detailed engraving of a women selling fruit which is also the title…