Not to be confused with the Alsatian Communist newspaper The New World.
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]
Thomas Moore's "Fifteen Songs," a collection of unpublished songs published in 1841, which were later released in The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore.[7]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]
