George Augustus Sala and the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press

In his study of the journalist George Augustus Sala, Peter Blake shows how Sala’s personal style and innovations in form influenced the New Journalism at the end of the nineteenth century. Blake’s book expands our understanding of one of the more prominent and interesting journalists and personalities of the nineteenth century, while also shedding light on prominent nineteenth-century writers and artists such as Charles Dickens, Mathew Arnold, William Powell Frith, Henry Vizetelly and Mary Elizabeth Braddon.