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Vizetelly, Henry

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Vizetelly, Henry (1820–94), engraver, publisher, journalist and editor, whose defiance of censorship and policy of issuing cheap reprints had a considerable impact on the literary scene. In 1885 he published with G. A. Moore a cheap one-volume edition of A Mummer's Wife, an act which did much to break the power of the circulating libraries and the three-decker novel; in 1886 with H. Ellis he founded the Mermaid Series. He also published translations, including 17 novels by Zola; it was his publication of Zola's La Terre that led to his three-month imprisonment in 1888 on an obscenity charge. This bankrupted his publishing company. His memoirs, Glances Back through Seventy Years (1893), give a lively portrait of 19th-cent. bohemian society.

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