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Introduction: Women, Periodicals, and Print Culture in the Victorian Period |
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Part I: (Re)Imagining Domestic Life |
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1 The Rise and Rise of the Domestic Magazine: Femininity at Home in Popular Periodicals |
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2 Regulating Servants in Victorian Women's Print Media |
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32 | (14) |
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3 Women Editors' Transnational Networks in the Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine and Myra's Journal |
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46 | (11) |
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4 Women and Family Health in the Mid-Victorian Family Magazine |
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57 | (12) |
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5 Negotiating Female Identity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland |
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69 | (15) |
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6 Women and the Welsh Newspaper Press: The Cambrian News and the Western Mail, 1870-1895 |
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84 | (15) |
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Part II: Constructing Modern Girls and Young Women |
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7 Promoting a Do-It-Yourself Spirit: Samuel Beeton's Young Englishwoman |
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103 | (17) |
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8 Claiming Medicine as a Profession for Women: The English Woman's Journal's Campaign for Female Doctors |
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120 | (20) |
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9 Encouraging Charitable Work and Membership in the Girls' Friendly Society through British Girls' Periodicals |
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140 | (13) |
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10 Welcome and Appeal for the "Maid of Dundee": Constructing the Female Working-Class Bard in Ellen Johnston's Correspondence Poetry, 1862-1867 |
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11 The Editor of the Period: Alice Corkran, the Girl's Realm, and the Woman Editor |
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164 | (14) |
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12 The 'Most-Talked-Of Creature in the World': The 'American Girl' in Victorian Print Culture |
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178 | (21) |
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Part III: Women and Visual Culture |
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13 Vicarious Pleasures: Photography, Modernity, and Mid-Victorian Domestic Journalism |
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202 | (16) |
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14 Beauty Advertising and Advice in the Queen and Woman |
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218 | (14) |
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15 Women of the World: The Lady's Pictorial and Its Sister Papers |
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232 | (24) |
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16 Rewriting Fairyland: Isabella Bird and the Spectacle of Nineteenth-Century Japan |
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256 | (21) |
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17 Victorian Women Wood Engravers: The Case of Clemence Housman |
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Part IV: Making Space for Women |
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18 Women Journalists and Periodical Spaces |
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306 | (13) |
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19 Making Space for Women's Work in the Leisure Hour: From Variety to 'Verity' |
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319 | (17) |
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20 Avatars, Pseudonyms, and the Regulation of Affect: Performing and Occluding Gender in the Pall Mall Gazette |
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336 | (15) |
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21 Gender, Anonymity, and Humour in Women's Writing for Punch |
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351 | (14) |
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22 Making Space for Women: The Labour Leader, the Clarion, and the Women's Column |
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365 | (14) |
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23 By the Fireside: Margaret Oliphant's Armchair Commentaries |
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Part V: Constructing Women Readers and Writers |
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24 'Afford[ ing] me a Place': Recovering Women Poets in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1827-1835 |
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25 Constructing the Mass-Market Woman Reader and Writer: Eliza Cook and the Weekly Dispatch, 1836-1850 |
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26 Elizabeth Gaskell and the Habit of Serialisation |
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27 Gender and Genre in Reviews of the Theological Novel |
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28 Reading Poet Amy Levy through Victorian Newspapers |
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456 | (14) |
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29 'I simply write it to order': L.T. Meade, Sisters of Sherlock, and the Strand Magazine |
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Part VI: Intervening in Political Debates |
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30 Brewing Storms of War, Slavery, and Imperialism: Harriet Martineau's Engagement with the Periodical Press |
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489 | (13) |
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31 Mary Smith (1822-1889): A Radical Journalist under Many Guises |
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502 | (14) |
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32 In Time of Disturbance: Political Dissonance and Subversion in Violet Fane's Contributions to the Lady's Realm |
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516 | (12) |
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33 'Our Women in Journalism': African-American Women Journalists and the Circulation of News |
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528 | (14) |
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34 The Response of the Late Victorian Feminist Press to Same-Sex Desire Controversies |
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542 | (13) |
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35 Wings and the Woman's Signal: Reputation and Respectability in Women's Temperance Periodicals, 1892-1899 |
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555 | (13) |
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Notes on Contributors |
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Index |
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