Glances Back Through Seventy Years Vizetelly Paperback 9781108009300 Volume 2

Glances Back Through Seventy YearsAutobiographical and Other Reminiscences\nAuthor(s): Henry Vizetelly\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108009300, 978-1108009300\nSynopsis\nThis autobiography recalls the eventful career of the nineteenth-century publisher and journalist, Henry Vizetelly [tel]. Born in London, Vizetelly was apprenticed to a wood engraver as a young child. He entered the printing business and helped found two successful but short-lived newspapers, the Pictorial Times and the Illustrated Times. From 1865 Vizetelly worked in Paris and Berlin as a foreign correspondent for the Illustrated London News, and also wrote and published several books. He later became a publisher of foreign novels and gained notoriety for his translations of Emile Zola which challenged strict Victorian laws on obscenity and led to his prosecution and imprisonment. His book is a fascinating blend of public .