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Eighteenth-Century Periodicals for Women

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Peter John Miller
Peter John Miller*
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The University of Alberta
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“There have been three silent revolutions in England,” asserted Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1832, “first when the professions fell off from the church; secondly, when literature fell off from the professions; and, thirdly, when the press fell off from literature.” A striking illustration of what Coleridge had in mind by his second and third “silent revolutions” is afforded by an examination of the development of periodicals for women in the late eighteenth century. Moreover, a study of the origin and nature of these magazines raises the question of the actual and potential uses of literacy, an educational problem that has acquired a special significance in the twentieth century.

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Notes and Documents I
Information
History of Education Quarterly , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , Fall 1971 , pp. 279 - 286
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Copyright © 1971 History of Education Quarterly 

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Notes

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2. John Bennet, Reverend, Strictures on Female Education: Chiefly As It Relates to the Culture of the Heart (London: T. Cadell, c. 1780), pp. 40,44.Google Scholar

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7. It is significant in this connection that by 1770 the initial prestigious episode in the history of the novel, for which Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, and Smollett deserve most credit, was at an end. With the exception of the works of Jane Austen, the novels published between Humphrey Clinker (1771) and Waverley (1814) have deservedly suffered the neglect of posterity.Google Scholar

8. “Table of Contents,” The Lady's Magazine (April 1766).Google Scholar

9. The New Lady's Magazine (December 1792); and Supplement (1792).Google Scholar

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13. Quoted in Raymond Williams, Culture and Society, 1780–1950 (London: Pelican Books, 1963), pp. 52–53.Google Scholar

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