Covering a wide range of magazine work, including editing, illustration, poetry, needlework instruction and typesetting, this book provides fresh insights into the participation of women in the nineteenth-century magazine industry.

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Marianne Van Remoortel is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the Department of Literary Studies, Ghent University, Belgium.

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List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction

1. Women, Work and the Victorian Press
2. Selling Domesticity: Eliza Warren Francis and the Ladies' Treasury
3. Threads of Life: Matilda Marian Pullan and Needlework Instruction
4. Christina Rossetti and the Economics of Periodical Poetry
5. The Fine Art of Satire: Florence and Adelaide Claxton and the Magazines
6. Back-Room Workers Stepping Forward: The Compositors of the Victoria Press
   Conclusion
   Bibliography
   Index