44-1052: Bastable may refer to: Characters [ edit ] The Bastables , characters in the 1899 novel The Story of the Treasure Seekers and its sequels by E. Nesbit Ornery Bastable, a character in the 1998 novel Six Moon Dance by American writer Sheri S. Tepper Oswald Bastable , a character in stories by British writer Michael Moorcock People [ edit ] Charles Francis Bastable (fl. 1882–1932), Irish economist and Whately Chair of Political Economy , Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland Steve Bastable (born 1956), British speedway rider Tony Bastable (1944–2007), British television presenter Places [ edit ] Bastable Theatre , theatre in Syracuse, New York See also [ edit ] Barnstable (disambiguation) Barstable (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
88-529: A competing magazine, The Spear , which appeared two days before The Sphere on 25 January 1900. The name was deliberately chosen to confuse and siphon off readers, and advertisements for The Sphere emphasised the difference between the magazines: "S-P-H-E-R-E… you may be offered something else you don't want." While editor of the ILN , Clement Shorter had been instrumental in the establishment and publication of The Sketch . In 1903, he established The Tatler as
132-423: A director and manager. Control passed to Ingram's widow Ann, and his friend Sir Edward William Watkin , who managed the business for 12 years. Once Ingram's two younger sons, William and Charles, were old enough, they took over as managing directors, although William took the lead. This was also a period of expansion and increased competition for the ILN . As reading habits and the illustrated news market changed,
176-409: A list of births, marriages, and deaths. Ingram hired 200 men to carry placards through the streets of London promoting the first edition of his new newspaper. Costing sixpence , the first issue sold 26,000 copies. Despite this initial success, sales of the second and subsequent editions were disappointing. However, Ingram was determined to make his newspaper a success, and sent every clergyman in
220-488: A management buy-out, and was re-established as Illustrated London News Ltd. From 2007, it has continued its activity as an independent content and creative agency. In 2007, the former Orient Express magazine was relaunched as Sphere , a luxury lifestyle and travel magazine. In addition to its independent publications, Illustrated London News Ltd now acts as a content agency for various other luxury and heritage organisations. Illustrated London News Ltd also manages and curates
264-523: A princess, inventing a patent medicine, rescuing a rich gentleman, but somehow nothing is successful. However, during their imaginative adventures they make many friends. The Bastable stories from The Story of the Treasure Seekers were first published between 1894 and October 1899 in an assortment of periodicals: Nister's Holiday Annual , the Illustrated London News and its supplement Father Christmas , The Pall Mall Magazine , and
308-559: A printing, newsagent, and bookselling business in Nottingham around 1834 in partnership with his brother-in-law, Nathaniel Cooke. As a newsagent, Ingram was struck by the reliable increase in newspaper sales when they featured pictures and shocking stories. Ingram began to plan a weekly newspaper that would contain pictures in every edition. Ingram rented an office, recruited artists and reporters, and employed as his editor Frederick William Naylor Bayley (1808–1853), formerly editor of
352-427: A similar sister publication for The Sphere , with a similar focus on illustrated culture and society news. With the departure of Shorter, the role of editor of the ILN was taken over by Bruce Ingram, the 23-year-old grandson of the paper's founder. Bruce Ingram was editor of The Illustrated London News and (from 1905) The Sketch , and ran the company for the next 63 years, presiding over some significant changes in
396-787: A special edition covering the funeral of the Duke of Wellington , sales increased to 150,000. In 1855, mainly due to the newspaper reproducing some of Roger Fenton 's pioneering photographs of the Crimean War , and due to the abolition of the Stamp Act that taxed newspapers, it sold 200,000 copies per week. Competitors soon began to appear. Lloyd's Illustrated Paper was founded later that year, while Reynold's Newspaper opened in 1850. Both were successful Victorian publications, albeit less successful than The Illustrated London News . Andrew Spottiswoode's Pictorial Times lost £20,000 before it
440-424: A subordinate role in the business and parted on bad terms around 1854. The departure of William Little was in 1858. In addition to providing a loan of £10,000, he was the printer and publisher of the paper for 15 years. Little's relationship with Ingram deteriorated over Ingram's harassment of their mutual sister-in-law. Herbert Ingram died on 8 September 1860 in a paddle-steamer accident on Lake Michigan , and he
484-403: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles The Bastables The Story of the Treasure Seekers is a novel by E. Nesbit first published in 1899. It tells the story of Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noel, and Horace Octavius (H. O.) Bastable, and their attempts to assist their widowed father and recover the fortunes of their family. The novel's complete name is The Story of
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#1732776878388528-583: Is held by Gale Primary Sources . TheGenealogist has a full collection online available from 1842 to 1879 and a number of issues from 1890. The original woodblocks of the first issue are held by the Victoria and Albert Museum , London. In Jules Verne 's fictional Around the World in Eighty Days , The Illustrated London News is referenced as reporting extensively on Phileas Fogg's travel around
572-406: Is one of us that tells this story – but I shall not tell you which: only at the very end perhaps I will. While the story is going on you may be trying to guess, only I bet you don't." However, his occasional lapse into the first person, and the undue praise he likes to heap on himself, make his identity obvious to the attentive reader long before he reveals it himself. The Bastable family lives on
616-527: The Windsor Magazine . The order in which the chapters appeared was changed for the one-volume publication in 1899. Some of them also underwent extensive rewriting. The Story of the Treasure Seekers was the first novel for children by E. Nesbit. This and her later novels exerted considerable influence on subsequent English children's literature, most notably Arthur Ransome 's books and C. S. Lewis ' The Chronicles of Narnia . Lewis notes in
660-504: The ILN appeared in 1869, with the establishment of The Graphic , a weekly illustrated paper co-founded by William Luson Thomas . Thomas was a former wood engraver for The Illustrated London News , and brought his expertise in illustrated publishing to his new magazine. The Graphic was highly popular, particularly for its coverage of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, and was well regarded among artists; Vincent van Gogh
704-495: The ILN bought or established a number of new publications, evolving from a single newspaper to a larger-scale publishing business. As with Herbert Ingram's purchases in the 1850s, this expansion was also an effective way of managing competition – dominating markets and buying out competing ventures. As with the acquisitions of the 1850s, several similar illustrated publications were established in this period by former employees of The Illustrated London News . Serious competition for
748-534: The ILN established The Sketch , a sister publication that covered lighter news and society events with the same focus on illustration. From this point, the name of the company changed to the Illustrated London News and Sketch Ltd. In 1899, ILN editor Clement Shorter left the paper to found his own publication, The Sphere , which published its first issue on 27 January 1900. Ingram and The Illustrated London News responded by establishing
792-585: The Illustrated London News , Illustrated Newspapers Ltd and the Illustrated London News Group . In 2010, the entire back catalogue of The Illustrated London News was digitised, and is available online by subscription. The entire run of The Illustrated London News between 1914 and 1919 is available for free online. The archive for 1842 to 2003 can be searched through public libraries in several countries, and
836-668: The National Omnibus . The first issue of The Illustrated London News appeared on Saturday, 14 May 1842, timed to report on the young Queen Victoria 's first masquerade ball. The 16 pages and 32 wood engravings of that first edition covered topics such as the war in Afghanistan , the Versailles rail accident , a survey of the candidates for the US presidential election , extensive crime reports, theatre and book reviews, and
880-413: The surname Bastable . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bastable&oldid=1110617316 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
924-473: The 'Great Eight' publications. The Illustrated London News , the flagship publication, was supported by sister publications The Sketch , The Sphere , The Tatler , The Graphic , The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News , The Bystander , and Eve . With the exception of The Tatler , these publications remained as part of Illustrated News Ltd. until their closure at various times in the 20th century. The centenary of The Illustrated London News in 1942
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#1732776878388968-735: The First World War in July 2014, ILN Ltd launched illustratedfirstworldwar.com, a free historical resource funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund . The entire run of the Great Eight publications between 1914 and 1918 is available on this site. The company operates at 46–48 East Smithfield Street. In May 2024, Illustrated London News Ltd fell into administration and has subsequently appointed Opus Restructuring Llp of 1 Radian Court, Knowlhill, Milton Keynes, MK5 8PJ to wind up
1012-529: The Lewisham Road in London in straitened circumstances, the widowed father having been cheated by his business partner. The children, Dora, the eldest, Oswald, the narrator, Dicky, Alice and Noel (10-year old twins), and H. O., the youngest, decide to restore the fortunes of their house by finding or earning treasure. They try various methods that work in books, such as digging for it, being bandits, marrying
1056-675: The Treasure Seekers: Being the Adventures of the Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune . The original edition included illustrations by H. R. Millar . The Puffin edition (1958) was illustrated by Cecil Leslie . Its sequels are The Wouldbegoods (1901) and The New Treasure Seekers (1904). The story is told from a child's point of view. The narrator is Oswald, but on the first page he announces: "It
1100-623: The archives of the Great Eight publications were sold to Sea Containers , an international transport corporation headed by James Sherwood . Along with the Illustrated London News Group, Sea Containers operated the Orient Express and Great North Eastern Railway , and a range of luxury hotels. As part of this activity, Illustrated London News Group launched a luxury travel and lifestyle magazine, Orient Express . In 1994, publication of The Illustrated London News
1144-482: The children. J. K. Rowling , writer of Harry Potter , ranked Nesbit as one of her favourite authors, and The Story of the Treasure Seekers as her favourite of Nesbit's books. British writer Michael Moorcock later used the character, or at least the name, of Oswald Bastable for the hero and first-person narrator of his trilogy A Nomad of the Time Streams , published from 1971 until 1981, an influence on
1188-1389: The company, bringing nearly 200 years of publication to an end. The first generation of draughtsmen and engravers included Sir John Gilbert , Birket Foster , and George Cruikshank among the former, and W. J. Linton , Ebenezer Landells , and George Thomas among the latter. Regular literary contributors included Douglas Jerrold , Richard Garnett , and Shirley Brooks . Illustrators, artists, and photographers included Edward Duncan , Bruce Bairnsfather , H. M. Bateman , Edmund Blampied, Mabel Lucie Attwell , E. H. Shepherd , Kate Greenaway , John Proctor , W. Heath Robinson and his brother Charles Robinson , Rebecca Solomon , George E. Studdy , David Wright, Melton Prior, William Simpson , Frederic Villiers, H. C. Seppings-Wright, Myles Birket Foster , Frank Reynolds , Lawson Wood, C. E. Turner, R. Caton Woodville Jr , A. Forestier, Fortunino Matania , Christina Broom , Louis Wain , J. Segrelles , and Frank Vizetelly . Writers and journalists included Robert Louis Stevenson , Thomas Hardy , George Augustus Sala , J. M. Barrie , Wilkie Collins , Rudyard Kipling , G. K. Chesterton , Joseph Conrad , Camilla Dufour Crosland , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , Sir Charles Petrie , Agatha Christie , Arthur Bryant , and Tim Beaumont (who wrote about food). Note: sources are contradictory in some cases. An alternative listing for
1232-576: The country a copy of the edition that contained illustrations of the installation of the Archbishop of Canterbury , and by this means secured a great many new subscribers. Its circulation soon increased to 40,000, and by the end of its first year was 60,000. In 1851, after the newspaper published Joseph Paxton 's designs for the Crystal Palace before even Prince Albert had seen them, the circulation rose to 130,000. In 1852, when it produced
1276-549: The first chapter of The Magician's Nephew that the portion of the action of that book that takes place in this world happens at the same time as that of the Treasure Seekers. The American writer Edward Eager was also influenced by this and other Nesbit books, most notably in his Half Magic series, where he mentions the Bastable children and other Nesbit characters as heroes of his characters. Nesbit's influence on other British and American children's literature rests largely on
1320-404: The following motifs: her protagonists are a set or sets of siblings from a separated or incomplete family. The events of the story take place while the children are isolated as a group, for example, while on holiday. Through magic or complex imaginative play, the children face perils that they overcome through pluck . Another notable feature is the depiction of the realistic quarrels and faults of
1364-480: The illustrated weeklies. Many of the Great Eight publications were closed down after the Second World War ; The Sketch , The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News , and The Sphere all ceased publication in these years. In 1961, Illustrated Newspapers Ltd was bought by International Thomson, headed by Roy Thomson , a Canadian newspaper mogul. The Sphere ceased publication in 1964, while The Tatler
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1408-409: The layout of coal mines. In 1928, a major business merger had Illustrated London News move to new headquarters at Inveresk House, 1 Aldwych, (also known as 364 Strand), London, where The Illustrated London News and The Sketch were united with six of their former competitors under the parent company, Illustrated News Ltd. As eight of the largest titles in illustrated news, these were newly dubbed
1452-440: The nascent genre of steampunk . The book has been made into TV series three times, in 1953, 1961, and 1982. It was made into a television movie as The Treasure Seekers in 1996. Also at Project Gutenberg: The Illustrated London News The Illustrated London News , founded by Herbert Ingram and first published on Saturday 14 May 1842, was the world's first illustrated weekly news magazine . The magazine
1496-412: The newspaper and business archive of The Illustrated London News and the Great Eight publications, publishing short books and magazines of historical content from the Great Eight publication archives. In 2010, Gale digitised the entire back catalogue of The Illustrated London News (1842–2003), and in 2014 began digitalizing the remaining seven publications in the Great Eight. To mark the centenary of
1540-613: The newspaper and the publishing business as a whole. Photographic and printing techniques were advancing in the later years of the 19th century, and The Illustrated London News began to introduce photos and artwork into its depictions of weekly events. From about 1890, The Illustrated London News made increasing use of photography. The tradition of graphic illustrations continued until the end of World War I . Often, rough sketches of distant events with handwritten explanations were supplied by observers and then worked on by artists in London to produce polished end products for publication. This
1584-408: The period 1842–59 is 1842–46: F. W. N. Bayley; 1846–52: John Timbs ; 1852–59: Charles Mackay The archives of The Illustrated London News , The Sketch , The Sphere , The Tatler , The Bystander , The Graphic , The Illustrated War News , The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News , and Britannia and Eve are owned by Illustrated London News (ILN) Limited. ILN Ltd also holds company records of
1628-537: Was a particular admirer. William Ingram became chief proprietor of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News , est. 1874, and The Lady's Pictorial , which may have been a later title of The Lady's Newspaper and Pictorial Times . The Penny Illustrated Paper , aimed at a working-class readership, was established by the news company shortly after Ingram's death in 1861 in response to the abolition of stamp and paper taxes, which made cheaper publications possible. The Penny Illustrated Paper ran until 1913. In 1893,
1672-527: Was muted due to wartime conditions, including restrictions on the use of paper. The occasion was marked in the paper with a set of specially commissioned colour photographs of the royal family, including the future Queen Elizabeth. By the time of his death in 1963, Ingram was a major figure in the newspaper industry, and the longest-standing editor of his day. In the postwar period, print publications were gradually displaced from their central position in reporting news events, and circulation began to fall for all
1716-419: Was particularly the case where popular subjects such as colonial or foreign military campaigns did not lend themselves to clear illustration using the limited camera technology of the period. By the 1920s and 1930s, the pictures that dominated each issue of the magazine were almost exclusively photographic, although artists might still be used to illustrate in pictorial form topics such as budgetary expenditure or
1760-491: Was published weekly for most of its existence, switched to a less frequent publication schedule in 1971, and eventually ceased publication in 2003. The company continues today as Illustrated London News Ltd, a publishing, content, and digital agency in London, which holds the publication and business archives of the magazine. The Illustrated London News founder Herbert Ingram was born in Boston, Lincolnshire , in 1811, and opened
1804-427: Was reduced further to two issues a year, and the publishing activity of the Illustrated London News Group focused increasingly on the Orient Express magazine. After publishing its last Christmas number in 2001, The Illustrated London News was relaunched in 2003 under the editorship of Mark Palmer, which ran for one issue before finally ceasing publication for good. In 2007, The Illustrated London News Group underwent
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1848-419: Was sold in 1968. It was later revived and relaunched in 1977. With circulation figures continuing to fall, The Illustrated London News switched from weekly to monthly publication in 1971, with a new focus on in-depth reporting and selective coverage of world events. This strategy continued into the late 1980s, when the paper reduced its frequency to four issues a year. In 1985, The Illustrated London News and
1892-468: Was sold to Ingram by Henry Vizetelly, who had left the ILN to found it. Ingram folded it into another purchase, The Lady's Newspaper , which became The Lady's Newspaper and Pictorial Times . Vizetelly was also behind a later competitor, Illustrated Times in 1855, which was similarly bought out by Ingram in 1859. Ingram's other early collaborators left the business in the 1850s. Nathanial Cooke, his business partner and brother-in-law, found himself in
1936-411: Was succeeded as proprietor by his youngest son, William Ingram , who in turn was succeeded by his son, Sir Bruce Ingram (1877–1963) in 1900, who remained as editor until his death. By 1863, The Illustrated London News was selling more than 300,000 copies every week, enormous figures in comparison to other British newspapers of the time. The death of Herbert and his eldest son left the company without
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