Women in Print

Writing Women and Women's Magazines from the Restoration to the Accession of Victoria

Alison Adburgham

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Year: 2012
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9780571295258
• Subtopic: English Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

'This book should be regarded as rescue work. It salvages from pre-Victorian periodicals from the limbo of forgotten publications, and exhumes from long undisturbed sources a curious collection of women who, at a time when it was considered humiliating for a gentlewoman to earn money, contrived to support themselves by writing, editing, or publishing... sometimes even supporting husbands and children as well...The women who emerge make a motley gallery; but over the years that I have been getting to know them, they have won my respectful affection. More, indeed. To me they are all heroines...'
Alison Adburgham, from her Foreword

Magazines addressed to women have a long history in English, and have been subject to condescension for just as long. Alison Adburgham's groundbreaking volume, first published in 1972, rescues the so-called 'scribbling female' from such scorn, not least by documenting just how hard was the struggle for women writers to live by the pen.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Epigraphs
• Table of Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Foreword
• Chapter I : FROM THE RESTORATION TO QUEEN ANNE
• Chapter II : FASHIONABLE EDUCATION AND LONELY SCHOLARS
• Chapter III : ESSAY PAPERS AND NEWSPAPER WOMEN
• Chapter IV : RECORDS OF LOVE AND ROMANTIC FICTION
• Chapter V : MAGAZINES AND WRITERS OF THE 1730s
• Chapter VI : THE ‘FEMALE SPECTATOR’ AND GOODWILL’S ‘LADY’S MAGAZINE’
• Chapter VII : CIRCULATING LIBRARIES AND MID-CENTURY MAGAZINES
• Chapter VIII : THE ‘LADY’S MAGAZINE’ AND THE BLUE STOCKINGS
• Chapter IX : PUBLISHING PLAGIARISM: NOVELS AS DRUGS
• Chapter X : POCKET BOOKS, SEASIDE LIBRARIES, AND WOMEN DRAMATISTS
• Chapter XI : JOHN BELL, MARY WELLS, AND MRS JOHNSON
• Chapter XII : EDUCATING ‘THE POOR’ AND FAMILY MAGAZINES
• Chapter XIII : FASHION PLATES AND MAGAZINES OF THE 1790s
• Chapter XIV : PERIODICALS OF THE NEW CENTURY
• Chapter XV : THE ANNUALS, THEIR EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS
• Chapter XVI : WRITING WOMEN OF THE 1830s
• Chronological List of Periodicals Mentioned in the Text
• Bibliography
• INDEX
• Plates
• Copyright