Not to be confused with the Alsatian Communist newspaper
The New World.
The New World was a weekly newspaper in New York, New York, in the United States, published from October 26, 1839, to May 1845 by Jonas Winchester.[1] The paper was founded and edited by Park Benjamin Sr. It billed itself as an apolitical "family newspaper", featuring British and American literature and religious discourses. 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]
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- Thomas Moore's "Fifteen Songs," a collection of unpublished songs published in 1841, which were later released in The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore.[7]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]
"The New World, Quarto Edition, v. II, no. 19, Whole Number 49, Saturday, May 8, 1841.", digital.library.villanova.edu, retrieved April 4, 2017.
- 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