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The
Public Advertiser
was a London newspaper in the 18th century.
The
Public Advertiser
was originally known as the
London Daily Post and General Advertiser
, then simply the
General Advertiser
consisting more or less exclusively of adverts. It was taken over by its printer,
Henry Woodfall
(1713?1769), and relaunched as the
Public Advertiser
[1]
with much more news content. In 1758, the printer's nineteen-year-old son,
Henry Sampson Woodfall
took it over. H. S. Woodfall sold his interest in the
Public Advertiser
in November 1793.
[2]
A successor
Public Advertiser, or Political and Literary Diary
was printed for some months by N. Byrne but was out of business by 1795.
[3]
The anonymous polemicist
Junius
sent his public letters to the
Public Advertiser
.
Benjamin Franklin
published eleven essays attacking the controversial
Townsend Acts
in the
Public Advertiser
early in 1770. The letters can be viewed in volume seventeen of
The Papers of Benjamin Franklin
.
[4]
References
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- ^
1752?1793, "The Public Advertiser", published in London by H. S. Woodfall ? National Library of Australia, Trove
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"Woodfall, Henry Sampson"
.
Dictionary of National Biography
. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885?1900.
- ^
Public Advertiser, or Political and Literary Diary
, worldcat.org
- ^
Franklin; Labaree (ed.), 1969
, v. xvii, pp. 14, 18, 28, 33, 37, 45, 52, 58, 66, 73
- From Grub Street to Fleet Street: An Illustrated History of English Newspapers to 1899
by Bob Clarke,
Ashgate Press
, 2005