
Literary annuals played a major role in the popular culture of nineteenth-century Britain and America, and The Keepsakewas the most distinguished, successful, and enduring of them all. The 1829 edition was stellar, with contributions by William Wordsworth, Mary Shelley, Samuel...

Excerpt from The Keepsake for 1829 IN presenting another volume of the Keepsake to the public, it may, perhaps, be deemed necessary to make a few. General observations. The universal approbation which the embellish ments of the previous number excited, and its un...