Women, Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1830s-1900s : : The Victorian Period / / Beth Rodgers, Alexis Easley, Clare Gill.
New perspectives on women, periodicals and print culture in Victorian Britain by experts in media, literary and cultural historyThe period covered in this volume witnessed the proliferation of print culture and the greater availability of periodicals for an increasingly diverse audience of women rea...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Edinburgh History of Women's Periodical Culture in Britain : EHWPCB
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Women, Periodicals, and Print Culture in the Victorian Period
- Part I: (Re)Imagining Domestic Life
- Introduction
- 1. The Rise and Rise of the Domestic Magazine: Femininity at Home in Popular Periodicals
- 2. Regulating Servants in Victorian Women’s Print Media
- 3. Women Editors’ Transnational Networks in the Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine and Myra’s Journal
- 4. Women and Family Health in the Mid-Victorian Family Magazine
- 5. Negotiating Female Identity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
- 6. Women and the Welsh Newspaper Press: The Cambrian News and the Western Mail, 1870–1895
- Part II: Constructing Modern Girls and Young Women
- Introduction
- 7. Promoting a Do-It-Yourself Spirit: Samuel Beeton’s Young Englishwoman
- 8. Claiming Medicine as a Profession for Women: The English Woman’s Journal’s Campaign for Female Doctors
- 9. Encouraging Charitable Work and Membership in the Girls’ Friendly Society through British Girls’ Periodicals
- 10. ‘Welcome and Appeal for the “Maid of Dundee”’: Constructing the Female Working-Class Bard in Ellen Johnston’s Correspondence Poetry, 1862–1867
- 11. The Editor of the Period: Alice Corkran, the Girl’s Realm, and the Woman Editor
- 12. The ‘Most-Talked-Of Creature in the World’: The ‘American Girl’ in Victorian Print Culture
- Part III: Women and Visual Culture
- Introduction
- 13. Vicarious Pleasures: Photography, Modernity, and Mid-Victorian Domestic Journalism
- 14. Beauty Advertising and Advice in the Queen and Woman
- 15. Women of the World: The Lady’s Pictorial and Its Sister Papers
- 16. Rewriting Fairyland: Isabella Bird and the Spectacle of Nineteenth-Century Japan
- 17. Victorian Women Wood Engravers: The Case of Clemence Housman
- Part IV: Making Space for Women
- Introduction
- 18. Women Journalists and Periodical Spaces
- 19. Making Space for Women’s Work in the Leisure Hour: From Variety to ‘Verity’
- 20. Avatars, Pseudonyms, and the Regulation of Affect: Performing and Occluding Gender in the Pall Mall Gazette
- 21. Gender, Anonymity, and Humour in Women’s Writing for Punch
- 22. Making Space for Women: The Labour Leader, the Clarion, and the Women’s Column
- 23. By the Fireside: Margaret Oliphant’s Armchair Commentaries
- Part V: Constructing Women Readers and Writers
- Introduction
- 24. ‘Afford[ing] me a Place’: Recovering Women Poets in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 1827–1835
- 25. Constructing the Mass-Market Woman Reader and Writer: Eliza Cook and the Weekly Dispatch, 1836–1850
- 26. Elizabeth Gaskell and the Habit of Serialisation
- 27. Gender and Genre in Reviews of the Theological Novel
- 28. Reading Poet Amy Levy through Victorian Newspapers
- 29. ‘I simply write it to order’: L. T. Meade, Sisters of Sherlock, and the Strand Magazine
- Part VI: Intervening in Political Debates
- Introduction
- 30. Brewing Storms of War, Slavery, and Imperialism: Harriet Martineau’s Engagement with the Periodical Press
- 31. Mary Smith (1822–1889): A Radical Journalist under Many Guises
- 32. In Time of Disturbance: Political Dissonance and Subversion in Violet Fane’s Contributions to the Lady’s Realm
- 33. ‘Our Women in Journalism’: African-American Women Journalists and the Circulation of News
- 34. The Response of the Late Victorian Feminist Press to Same-Sex Desire Controversies
- 35. Wings and the Woman’s Signal: Reputation and Respectability in Women’s Temperance Periodicals, 1892–1899
- Notes on Contributors
- Index