Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xii
5. Introduction: Women, Periodicals, and Print Culture in the Victorian Period 1
6. Part I: (Re)Imagining Domestic Life
7. Introduction 13
8. 1. The Rise and Rise of the Domestic Magazine: Femininity at Home in Popular Periodicals 18
9. 2. Regulating Servants in Victorian Women’s Print Media 32
10. 3. Women Editors’ Transnational Networks in the Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine and Myra’s Journal 46
11. 4. Women and Family Health in the Mid-Victorian Family Magazine 57
12. 5. Negotiating Female Identity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland 69
13. 6. Women and the Welsh Newspaper Press: The Cambrian News and the Western Mail, 1870–1895 84
14. Part II: Constructing Modern Girls and Young Women
15. Introduction 97
16. 7. Promoting a Do-It-Yourself Spirit: Samuel Beeton’s Young Englishwoman 103
17. 8. Claiming Medicine as a Profession for Women: The English Woman’s Journal’s Campaign for Female Doctors 120
18. 9. Encouraging Charitable Work and Membership in the Girls’ Friendly Society through British Girls’ Periodicals 140
19. 10. ‘Welcome and Appeal for the “Maid of Dundee”’: Constructing the Female Working-Class Bard in Ellen Johnston’s Correspondence Poetry, 1862–1867 153
20. 11. The Editor of the Period: Alice Corkran, the Girl’s Realm, and the Woman Editor 164
21. 12. The ‘Most-Talked-Of Creature in the World’: The ‘American Girl’ in Victorian Print Culture 178
22. Part III: Women and Visual Culture
23. Introduction 197
24. 13. Vicarious Pleasures: Photography, Modernity, and Mid-Victorian Domestic Journalism 202
25. 14. Beauty Advertising and Advice in the Queen and Woman 218
26. 15. Women of the World: The Lady’s Pictorial and Its Sister Papers 232
27. 16. Rewriting Fairyland: Isabella Bird and the Spectacle of Nineteenth-Century Japan 256
28. 17. Victorian Women Wood Engravers: The Case of Clemence Housman 277
29. Part IV: Making Space for Women
30. Introduction 301
31. 18. Women Journalists and Periodical Spaces 306
32. 19. Making Space for Women’s Work in the Leisure Hour: From Variety to ‘Verity’ 319
33. 20. Avatars, Pseudonyms, and the Regulation of Affect: Performing and Occluding Gender in the Pall Mall Gazette 336
34. 21. Gender, Anonymity, and Humour in Women’s Writing for Punch 351
35. 22. Making Space for Women: The Labour Leader, the Clarion, and the Women’s Column 365
36. 23. By the Fireside: Margaret Oliphant’s Armchair Commentaries 379
37. Part V: Constructing Women Readers and Writers
38. Introduction 393
39. 24. ‘Afford[ing] me a Place’: Recovering Women Poets in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 1827–1835 399
40. 25. Constructing the Mass-Market Woman Reader and Writer: Eliza Cook and the Weekly Dispatch, 1836–1850 413
41. 26. Elizabeth Gaskell and the Habit of Serialisation 429
42. 27. Gender and Genre in Reviews of the Theological Novel 442
43. 28. Reading Poet Amy Levy through Victorian Newspapers 456
44. 29. ‘I simply write it to order’: L. T. Meade, Sisters of Sherlock, and the Strand Magazine 470
45. Part VI: Intervening in Political Debates
46. Introduction 483
47. 30. Brewing Storms of War, Slavery, and Imperialism: Harriet Martineau’s Engagement with the Periodical Press 489
48. 31. Mary Smith (1822–1889): A Radical Journalist under Many Guises 502
49. 32. In Time of Disturbance: Political Dissonance and Subversion in Violet Fane’s Contributions to the Lady’s Realm 516
50. 33. ‘Our Women in Journalism’: African-American Women Journalists and the Circulation of News 528
51. 34. The Response of the Late Victorian Feminist Press to Same-Sex Desire Controversies 542
52. 35. Wings and the Woman’s Signal: Reputation and Respectability in Women’s Temperance Periodicals, 1892–1899 555
53. Notes on Contributors 568
54. Index 575