Description

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.

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


Contenu

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

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