Introduction: Women, Periodicals and Print Culture in the Victorian Period

Alexis Easley, Clare Gill, and Beth Rodgers

Part I (Re)Imagining Domestic Life

Introduction

1 The Rise and Rise of the Domestic Magazine: Femininity at Home in Popular Periodicals

Margaret Beetham

2 Regulating Servants in Victorian Women’s Print Media

Kathryn Ledbetter

3 Women Editors’ Transnational Networks in the Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine and Myra’s Journal

Marianne Van Remoortel

4 Women and Family Health in the Mid-Victorian Family Magazine

Claire Furlong

5 Negotiating Female Identity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Elizabeth Tilley

6 Women and the Welsh Newspaper Press: The Cambrian News and the Western Mail, 1870–1895

Tom O’Malley

Part II Constructing Modern Girls and Young Women

Introduction

7 Promoting a Do-It-Yourself Spirit: Samuel Beeton’s Young Englishwoman

Jennifer Phegley

8 Claiming Medicine as a Profession for Women: The English Woman’s Journal’s Campaign for Female Doctors

Teja Varma Pusapati

9 Encouraging Charitable Work and Membership in the Girls’ Friendly Society through British Girls’ Periodicals

Kristine Moruzi

10 ‘Welcome and Appeal for the “Maid of Dundee”’: Constructing the Female Working-Class Bard in Ellen Johnston’s Correspondence Poetry, 1862–1867

Suz Garrard

11 The Editor of the Period: Alice Corkran, the Girl’s Realm, and the Woman Editor

Beth Rodgers

12 The ‘Most-Talked-Of Creature in the World’: The ‘American Girl’ in Victorian Print Culture

Bob Nicholson

Part III Women and Visual Culture

Introduction

13 Vicarious Pleasures: Photography, Modernity, and Mid-Victorian Domestic Journalism

Charlotte Boman

14 Beauty Advertising and Advice in the Queen and Woman

Michelle J. Smith

15 Women of the World: The Lady’s Pictorial and Its Sister Papers

Gerry Beegan

16 Rewriting Fairyland: Isabella Bird and the Spectacle of Nineteenth-Century Japan

Andrea Kaston Tange

17 Victorian Women Wood Engravers: The Case of Clemence Housman

Lorraine Janzen Kooistra

Part IV Making Space for Women

Introduction

18 Women Journalists and Periodical Spaces

Joanne Shattock

19 Making Space for Women’s Work in the Leisure Hour: From Variety to ‘Verity’

Katherine Malone

20 Avatars, Pseudonyms, and the Regulation of Affect: Performing and Occluding Gender in the Pall Mall Gazette

Fionnuala Dillane

21 Gender, Anonymity, and Humour in Women’s Writing for Punch

Katy Birch

22 Making Space for Women: The Labour Leader, the Clarion, and the Women’s Column

Deborah Mutch

23 By the Fireside: Margaret Oliphant’s Armchair Commentaries

Valerie Sanders

Part V Constructing Women Readers and Writers

Introduction

24 ‘Afford[ing] me a Place’: Recovering Women Poets in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 1827–1835

Lindsy Lawrence

25 Constructing the Mass-Market Woman Reader and Writer: Eliza Cook and the Weekly Dispatch, 1836–1850

Alexis Easley

26 Elizabeth Gaskell and the Habit of Serialisation

Catherine Delafield

27 Gender and Genre in Reviews of the Theological Novel

Anne DeWitt

28 Reading Poet Amy Levy through Victorian Newspapers

Linda K. Hughes

29 ‘I simply write it to order’: L. T. Meade, Sisters of Sherlock, and the Strand Magazine

Clare Clarke

Part VI Intervening in Political Debates

Introduction

30 Brewing Storms of War, Slavery, and Imperialism: Harriet Martineau’s Engagement with the Periodical Press

Lesa Scholl

31 Mary Smith (1822–1889): A Radical Journalist under Many Guises

Florence S. Boos

32 In Time of Disturbance: Political Dissonance and Subversion in Violet Fane’s Contributions to the Lady’s Realm

Ceylan Kosker

33 ‘Our Women in Journalism’: African-American Women Journalists and the Circulation of News

Caroline Bressey

34 The Response of the Late Victorian Feminist Press to Same-Sex Desire Controversies

Molly Youngkin

35 Wings and the Woman’s Signal: Reputation and Respectability in Women’s Temperance Periodicals, 1892–1899

Gemma Outen