author
Charles Hindley
d. 1893
A Victorian editor and collector with a taste for the lively side of print culture, he preserved the ballads, broadsides, street cries, and odd literary scraps that ordinary readers once bought for pennies. His books open a vivid window onto popular reading and everyday urban life in nineteenth-century Britain.
3 Audiobooks
The True History of Tom & Jerry or, The Day and Night Scenes, of Life in London from the Start to the Finish!
by Charles Hindley, Pierce Egan, W. T. (William Thomas) Moncrieff
The History of the Catnach Press at Berwick-Upon-Tweed, Alnwick and Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, in Northumberland, and Seven Dials, London
by Charles Hindley
A History of the Cries of London, Ancient and Modern
by Charles Hindley
About the author
Charles Hindley was a nineteenth-century English writer and editor remembered for gathering the kinds of materials that many scholars once ignored: street literature, cheap print, old ballads, and curious reprints from earlier centuries. The surviving catalog and library records linked to him consistently identify him as an editor and compiler, and place his death in 1893.
His best-known works include Curiosities of Street Literature (1871), A History of the Cries of London, Ancient and Modern (1881), The History of the Catnach Press (1886), and The Old Book Collector's Miscellany. Together, these books show a strong interest in broadsides, chapbooks, popular songs, and the noisy, fast-moving world of print sold in streets and markets.
That makes Hindley especially appealing to modern listeners and readers who enjoy the hidden corners of literary history. Rather than focusing only on famous authors, he paid attention to what common people read, sang, and heard, helping preserve a more colorful and everyday record of British culture.