Sharin Schroeder
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An error occurred while saving the comment I love what you have scanned and will continue to scan (particularly looking forward to 1874), but I would also love it if you might plan on going further than 1892. After reading Nash's Kailyard and Scottish Literature, I would be very interested to do searches on the Glasgow Weekly Herald's views over time on Kailyard (and to compare it to the Glasgow Weekly Mail). I also think it would be great if you could begin the scans with the first issues in November and December of 1864.
An error occurred while saving the comment The new Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press notes that "By 1911, as reproduced in the souvenir catalogue, the weekly version proudly proclaimed itself 'Scotland's National Newspaper' (Anon. 1911). yet, as Denis Brogan's remembrances suggest, the paper was also strongly identified with Glasgow" (545). . . . This was a paper whose self-perception, one that was widely shared, was at once Glaswegian, Scottish, and British. I am interested in the daily version, too, but the weekly herald would provide researchers with more information about fiction published in Glasgow at the time, as well as a means to contrast the weekly and daily publication. I am personally most interested in the 1870s, though I'm sure other researchers will be interested in other periods.
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An error occurred while saving the comment I love that you are beginning to add this paper to the archive. The available scans have already been extremely helpful. However, I would also love it if you could continue the scanning past 1892 (after you finish the current bits). The newspaper itself repeatedly claims to have the largest circulation in Scotland. In 1885, they claimed their cirulation was over 230,000 a week: "This is larger than the combined circulation of all the daily papers in Scotland," and by the end of May, they claimed they had a circulation of "Over a Quarter of a Million.This represents more than a million readers each week." Moreover, as noted by William Donaldson, there is much of interest in the vernacular novel serializations in this paper. I would love to see the time period of digitization extended because I imagine this paper could be key to rethinking our understanding of Scottish novels in the late nineteenth century. Kailyard literature is becoming very much discussed in Scottish papers in the 1890s just after the coverage is scheduled to end. The Glasgow Herald, the Glasgow Weekly Mail's rival, is frequently quoted on the subject, but the more liberal paper's views are unexplored. It would be great if this paper could be digitized until May 1915, when the title changes, but if that is not possible, it would be great to go at least until the end of the century. Thanks a lot for considering extending the coverage.
An error occurred while saving the comment William Donaldson's Popular Culture in Victorian Scotland especially pointed to this newspaper as being a window into nineteenth-century popular culture. I really hope the weekly versions of the Glasgow Weekly Mail and the Glasgow Weekly Herald can be added as soon as possible. I think they're key to understanding much about nineteenth-century Scottish culture and popular fiction.
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J. M. Barrie, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Walter Besant appeared in this review, as well as Kailyard writers like Crockett and MacLaren. Dixon Scott wrote, "Every Thursday, in the British Weekly, Sir W. Robertson Nicoll addresses an audience far more numerous, far more responsive, far more eagerly in earnest, than that controlled by any other living critic. . . . He controls the contents of . . . bookshelves of a thousand homes--they change beneath his fingers. . . and every alteration means the modification of a mind. What Claudius Clear reads on Wednesday, half of Scotland and much of England is reading before the end of the week" (qtd. in "William Robertson Nicoll, the Kailyard School, and the Question of Popular Culture" by Andrew Nash, 63)