Copyright

Andrew Hobbs;

Published On

2026-08-17

Language

  • English

Print Length

60 pages

THEMA

  • JBCT
  • NHD
  • KNTP2

BIC

  • KNTJ
  • JFD
  • 3JH

BISAC

  • SOC052000
  • HIS015060
  • LAN008000

Keywords

  • Anthony Hewitson
  • Victorian journalist
  • provincial newspaper
  • diaries
  • creation of Victorian newspapers
  • Victorian fatherhood
  • Victorian town

1896

Chapter of: The Diaries of Anthony Hewitson, Provincial Journalist, Volume 2: 1891–1912

Hewitson is now co-owner of the weekly Wakefield Herald in Yorkshire, renting a house in Dewsbury. He tries to find journalism jobs for his three sons Ethelbert, Horace and Llewellyn, with little success. His business partnership with Charles William Carr ends acrimoniously, leading to Hewitson’s purchase outright of the Wakefield Herald. His sons run the paper under Hewitson’s direction, while he divides his time between Wakefield and Preston. Entries discuss newspaper business matters, reviewing of books and magazines, leader-writing and sub-editing; Hewitson’s ownership of property including a pub, shop and house in Preston, and land in Ingleton; social life in Preston, including his friendship with EH Booth, founder of the grocery business; holidays in Edinburgh and Scarborough, Hewitson’s reading, and reminiscences.

Contributors

Andrew Hobbs

(editor)
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5943-475X

Dr Andrew Hobbs used the diaries of Anthony Hewitson in his 2018 monograph, A Fleet Street in Every Town: The provincial press in England, 1855-1900 (Open Book, 2018), which won the 2019 Research Society for Victorian Periodicals book prize. He is a retired journalism lecturer and former newspaper journalist, and has written extensively on how local and regional newspapers and magazines of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries expressed a sense of place.