Contents

pp v-viii

List of Illustrations

pp ix-xi

Acknowledgments

pp xii-xii

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

pp 1-12

Part I - (Re)Imagining Domestic Life

pp 13-14

(Re)Imagining Domestic Life: Introduction

pp 15-17

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

pp 18-31

2 - Regulating Servants in Victorian Women's Print Media

pp 32-45

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

pp 46-56

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

pp 57-68

5 - Negotiating Female Identity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

pp 69-83

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

pp 84-96

Part II - Constructing Modern Girls and Young Women

pp 97-98

Constructing Modern Girls and Young Women: Introduction

pp 99-102

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

pp 103-119

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

pp 120-139

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

pp 140-152

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

pp 153-163

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

pp 164-177

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

pp 178-196

Part III - Women and Visual Culture

pp 197-198

Women and Visual Culture: Introduction

pp 199-201

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

pp 202-217

14 - Beauty Advertising and Advice in the Queen and Woman

pp 218-231

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

pp 232-255

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

pp 256-276

17 - Victorian Women Wood Engravers: The Case of Clemence Housman

pp 277-300

Part IV - Making Space for Women

pp 301-302

Making Space for Women: Introduction

pp 303-305