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The Agony Column of the "Times" 1800-1870 is a short volume, contents of which have been taken from the second column, popularly known as the "Agony Column" of Times newspaper, from the beginning of the 19th century to the end of the year 1870. The Agony Column is a newspaper column consisting of personal advertisements relating to matters like missing relatives or friends. Most of the advertisements presented in this work show a curious phase of life, which will automatically attract an observer of human reality and human quirks. These advertisements are covered in mystery, with the idea of blinding the common public, but at the same time, they give a clue specifically to those for whom they were planned. The readers of this work cannot fail to be struck by these remarkable and secretive communications. During the early period of 1800, the "Agony Column" used to be the main medium for matrimonial advertisements.
This study focuses on the complex relations between author, publisher and contemporary reading public in 19th-century America; in particular, the emergence of Irving and Cooper as America's first successful literary entrepreneurs, how Poe's and Melville's successes and failures affected their writing, the popularization of poetry in the 1830s and 1840s, the role of the literary magazine in the 1840s and 1850s, and the beginnings of book promotion. It pays particular attention to the way social and economic forces helped to shape literary works.