A penny reading for the 71st (Highland) Regiment of Foot at Aldershot, 1871
The penny reading was a form of popular public entertainment that arose in the United Kingdom in the middle of the 19th century, consisting of readings and other performances, for which the admission charged was one penny.[1]
^s:Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary 1908/Rave Reed
pennyreading was a form of popular public entertainment that arose in the United Kingdom in the middle of the 19th century, consisting of readings and...
Retrieved 8 May 2015. "Penny Mordaunt MP renames landmark University building and gives annual Edith Morley Lecture". University of Reading. 10 March 2017. Archived...
Kingdom. The pejorative term is roughly interchangeable with penny horrible, penny awful, and penny blood. The term typically referred to a story published...
Carole Penny Marshall (October 15, 1943 – December 17, 2018) was an American actress, director, and producer. She is best known for her role as Laverne...
and Louise grew up reading mystery writers such as Agatha Christie, Georges Simenon, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Michael Innes. Penny earned a Bachelor of...
"Henny Penny", more commonly known in the United States as "Chicken Little" and sometimes as "Chicken Licken", is a European folk tale with a moral in...
A penny is a coin (pl.: pennies) or a unit of currency (pl.: pence) in various countries. Borrowed from the Carolingian denarius (hence its former abbreviation...
Helen Bates "Penny" Chenery (January 27, 1922 – September 16, 2017) (married names: Penny Tweedy until 1974 and later Penny Ringquist until 1980) was an...
George Cole from 1967 until his death in 2015. Penny Morrell died at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, Berkshire, England on 3 January 2020, aged 81...
"Penny Lane" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles that was released as a double A-side single with "Strawberry Fields Forever" in February 1967...
amateur songs and sketches at private parties and, beginning in 1864, at pennyreadings. He also participated in a small number of theatricals as an amateur...
The Penny Black was the world's first adhesive postage stamp used in a public postal system. It was first issued in the United Kingdom on 1 May 1840 but...
Penny Arcade is a webcomic focused on video games and video game culture, written by Jerry Holkins and illustrated by Mike Krahulik. The comic debuted...
Penny Ford (also known as Pennye Ford, born June 11, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. Born and raised...
The Penny Magazine was an illustrated British magazine aimed at the working class, published every Saturday from 31 March 1832 to 31 October 1845. Charles...
backfires when they become invested in the story. Leonard also enjoys Pennyreading the fanfic to him, but stops before a sex scene. 174 15 "The Comic Book...
December 2022. Sankovitch, Nina (27 September 2012). "Reading the Beautiful Mysteries of Louise Penny". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 22 July 2015. Kirchhoff...
readers. But, eventually, people became interested in reading the latest news which the penny papers strove to provide. James Gordon Bennett's 1835 founding...
The Lincoln cent (sometimes called the Lincoln penny) is a one-cent coin that has been struck by the United States Mint since 1909. The obverse or heads...
to stop him. However, neither side is aware that it is Gadget's niece, Penny, and her dog, Brain, who are truly responsible for thwarting M.A.D. The...
The Penny Post is any one of several postal systems in which normal letters could be sent for one penny. Five such schemes existed in the United Kingdom...
The Maine penny, also referred to as the Goddard coin, is a Norwegian silver coin dating to the reign of Olaf Kyrre King of Norway (1067–1093 AD). It...
University of Reading is a public research university in Reading, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1892 as University College, Reading, a University...
The Penny Red was a British postage stamp, issued in 1841. It succeeded the Penny Black and continued as the main type of postage stamp in the United...
taking place. Another early meeting place was the old 1 pennyreading rooms in Mill Lane. The reading rooms were provided by the owners of the tinplate works...
A Penny board is a type of skateboard that is characterized by a short and narrow plastic deck. Although such skateboards were first manufactured during...