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The Wharton Rebel series, for example, was too involved for young boys. The Thomson papers were for boys. . 50 Instead their imagination was fired by Thomson’s outlandish tales. The Wharton rebel series which many earlier memoirs mentioned as extremely helpful to their efforts to understand and deal with the world of school (both residential and day, private and state) was perceived as too difficult to understand by the same types of boys whose fathers would have experienced no difficulties with it.
1 First came the eradication of the ‘taxes on knowledge’, which had been employed by successive governments both to raise revenue, and more importantly, to control the free flow of information around Britain. The 1850s saw the beginning of the abolition of these taxes and new publishers were quick to consider how to exploit the new market which might be created. 2 Added to this was the creation of a more efficient communication network with the construction of the railway and the improvement of the road system.
These changes came slowly and were driven by new technologies and their expense as well as by the expansion of new markets. The following chapter traces this in the context of the development of new formats and marketing techniques. The roots of the boys’ publishing industry are in the periodical press of the first half of the nineteenth century. 1 First came the eradication of the ‘taxes on knowledge’, which had been employed by successive governments both to raise revenue, and more importantly, to control the free flow of information around Britain.