Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures and Plates Figures viii
4. Introduction: Women and the Birth of Periodical Culture 1
5. Part I Learning for the Ladies
6. Learning for the Ladies: Introduction 21
7. 1 Periodicals and the Problem of Women’s Learning 25
8. 2 Discontinuous Reading and Miscellaneous Instruction for British Ladies 40
9. 3 Constructing Women’s History in the LADY’S MUSEUM 53
10. 4 Vindications and Reflections: The LADY’S MAGAZINE during the Revolution Controversy (1789–1795) 67
11. Part II The Poetics of Periodicals
12. The Poetics of Periodicals: Introduction 83
13. 5 Dunton and Singer after the ATHENIAN MERCURY: Two Plots of Platonic Love 87
14. 6 Women’s Poetry in the Magazines 101
15. 7 ‘A lasting wreath of various hue’: Hannah Cowley, the Della Cruscan Affair, and the Medium of the Periodical Poem 113
16. 8 The LADY’S POETICAL MAGAZINE and the Fashioning of Women’s Literary Space 129
17. Part III Periodicals Nationally and Internationally
18. Periodicals Nationally and Internationally: Introduction 149
19. 9 Protesting the Exclusivity of the Public Sphere: Delarivier Manley’s EXAMINER 153
20. 10 ‘A moral paper! And how do you expect to get money by it?’: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Journalism 165
21. 11 Eliza Haywood’s Periodicals in Wartime 178
22. 12 German Women’s Writing in British Magazines, 1760–1820 190
23. 13 Travel Writing and Mediation in the LADY’S MAGAZINE: Charting ‘the meridian of female reading’ 205
24. Part IV Print Media and Print Culture
25. Print Media and Print Culture: Introduction 217
26. 14 ‘[L]et a girl read’: Periodicals and Women’s Literary Canon Formation 221
27. 15 Reviewing Women: Women Reviewers on Women Novelists 236
28. 16 Reviewing Femininity: Gender and Genre in the Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth- Century Periodical Press 250
29. 17 ‘Full of pretty stories’: Fiction in the LADY’S MAGAZINE (1770–1832) 263
30. 18 ‘This Lady is Descended from a Good Family’: Women and Biography in British Magazines, 1770–1798 278
31. 19 Suitable Reading Material: Fandom and Female Pleasure in Women’s Engagement with Romantic Periodicals 294
32. Part V Theorising the Periodical in Text and Practice
33. Theorising the Periodical in Text and Practice: Introduction 311
34. 20 The LADIES MERCURY 315
35. 21 John Dunton’s LADIES MERCURY and the Eighteenth-Century Female Subject 327
36. 22 Frances Brooke, Editor, and the Making of the OLD MAID (1755–1756) 342
37. 23 Eyes that Eagerly ‘Bear the Steady Ray of Reason’: Eidolon as Activist in Charlotte Lennox’s LADY’S MUSEUM 357
38. 24 ‘[T]o cherish FEMALE ingenuity, and to conduce to FEMALE improvement’: The Birth of the Woman’s Magazine 377
39. 25 The Woman behind the Man behind the WORLD: Mary Wells and the Feminisation of the Late Eighteenth-Century Newspaper 393
40. Part VI Fashion, Theatre, and Celebrity
41. Fashion, Theatre, and Celebrity: Introduction 407
42. 26 Advertising Women: Gender and the Vendor in the Print Culture of the Medical Marketplace, 1660–1830 411
43. 27 Theatrical, Periodical, Authorial: Frances Brooke’s OLD MAID (1755–1756) 426
44. 28 Fast Fashion: Style, Text, and Image in Late Eighteenth-Century Women’s Periodicals 440
45. 29 Magazine Miniatures: Portraits of Actresses, Princesses, and Queens in Late Eighteenth- Century Periodicals 458
46. 30 Fashioning Consumers: Ackermann’s REPOSITORY OF ARTS and the Cultivation of the Female Consumer 474
47. Appendix 488
48. Notes on Contributors 495
49. Index 501