The New World (American newspaper)

The New World was a weekly newspaper in New York, New York, in the United States, published from October 26, 1839, to May 1845 by Jonas Winchester.^[1] The paper was founded and edited by Park Benjamin Sr. It billed itself as an apolitical "family newspaper",^[2] featuring British and American literature^[3] and religious discourses.^[2] The paper's masthead read: "No pent-up Utica contracts our powers; The whole unbounded Continent is ours!", a quote originally attributed to Jonathan M. Sewall from his epilogue to Cato, a Tragedy in 1778.^[4]

Notable contributions include:

• Charles Dickens' Barnaby Rudge, reprinted in 1841 in weekly installments after its original appearance in Master Humphrey's Clock.^[5]
• Thomas Carlyle's six-part lecture series On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History, printed in 1841.^[6]
• Thomas Moore's "Fifteen Songs," a collection of unpublished songs published in 1841, which were later released in The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore.^[7]
• Anna Cora Mowatt's complete play, Gulzara or The Persian Slave: 1 drama in Five Acts, in 1841.^[8]
• E.P. Hurlbut's "The Rights of Woman," later published in his work, Essays on Human Rights and their Political Guaranties in 1845.^[9] Hurlbut knew Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Declaration of Sentiments from the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 follows many of the examples set forth in "The Rights of Woman."^[10]
• G.P.R. James' complete novels, The Jacquerie and Morley Ernstein; or, The Tenants of the Heart, both published in extra editions in 1842.^[11][12]
• Sarah Stickney Ellis' complete novel, Summer and Winter in the Pyrenees.^[13]