Victorian womens magazines An anthology

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This unique collection is an introduction to the rich variety of Victorian magazines for women. The extracts range from fashion magazines to feminist journals, from serious works for Christian mothers to tales of romance and passion for "sweethearts". Focusing on the development of the British magazine, this extensively illustrated work gives access to texts few readers ever see.

Acknowledgements

Introduction

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PART I

The fashion magazine

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`To the Readers of the World of Fashion', The World of Fashion, vol. 17, 1840, p. 1

(2)

Fashion plate from The World of Fashion, vol. 40, 1864

(1)

`A Word to Young Maids on Old Maids', by Ella, Le Follet, vol. 19, 1865, pp. 77-78

(1)

Cover, Myra's Journal of Dress and Fashion, vol. 1, 1875

(1)

`Spinnings in Town', by Silkworm, Myra's Journal of Dress and Fashion, vol. 1, 1876, pp. 261-66

(2)

`Editorial Note', The Rational Dress Society's Gazette, vol. 1, 1888, pp. 1-2

(1)

`Society is Now One Polished Horde', The World of Dress, vol. 2, 1899, p. 133

(3)

The drawing-room journal

(11)

Contents page of the `United Series' of The Court and Lady's Magazine and Museum, vol. 12, 1843

(2)

Front page of Mrs. Ellis's Morning Call, vol. 1, 1850

(1)

`Elizabeth and Victoria. From a Woman's Point of View', The Victoria Magazine, vol. 3, 1864, pp. 97-103

(5)

`The Higher Education of Women', The Ladies' Cabinet, vol. 34, 1869, pp. 221-22

(1)

`Debates of the Ladies' Edinburgh Literary Society', by Ex Cathedra, The Ladies' Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 4, 1878, pp. 44-45

(3)

The general illustrated magazine

(13)

`The Sorrows of Gentility. Chapter XII', by Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury, The Ladies' Companion, vol. 2, 1850, pp. 305-07

(4)

Frontispiece, The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, vol. 2, 1853, unnumbered page

(1)

`Cupid's Letter-Bag', The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, vol. 2, 1853, p. 96

(1)

`Social Employments of Women', The Ladies' Treasury, vol. 1, 1858, pp. 21-23

(2)

`Pastimes for Ladies. On Three Wheels', Woman's World, vol. 6, 1887, pp. 243-44

(4)

Fashion plate, Hearth and Home, vol. 1, 1891, p. 676

(1)

Cover, The Englishwoman, vol. 1, 1895

(1)

The religious magazine

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`Our First Word to Mothers', The Mother's Friend, vol. 1, 1848, pp. 1-2

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`A Word Upon Dress. By The Author of ``Not at Home'' and ``The First Dissenter''', The Christian Lady's Magazine, vol. 10, new series, 1855, pp. 337-41

(2)

`Trials of a Complaining Wife. (A Conversation between Mrs. Fretwell and Mrs. Candid.) By the Author of ``Good Servants, Good Wives, and Happy Homes,'' &c., &c.', The British Workwoman, vol. 1, 1864, p. 47

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Covers, The British Workwoman, vol. 3, nos 37 and 38, 1866

(1)

`Plain Questions Worth Asking One's-Self Daily', The Servant's Magazine, vol. 1, new series, 1867, p. 21

(1)

The ladies' paper

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`Mrs. Perryan and Mr. Hardwicke' and `The Protection of Women', The Lady's Newspaper, vol. 1, 1847, p. 361

(1)

`Un-mental Women', by Fanny Fern, The Lady's Own Paper, vol. 5, 1871, p. 289

(4)

The Queen, vol. 77, 1885, p. 331 and an unnumbered advertising page

(1)

`A Woman's Work at the Docks', The Queen, vol. 87, 1890, p. 414

(1)

`Gentlewomen ``At Home''. No. XXVI. The Countess of Cottenham at Queen's Gate.', The Gentlewoman, vol. 1. no. 26, 1890, pp. 1-2

(2)

The feminist journal

(10)

Contents list for The Englishwoman's Journal, vol. 1, 1858

(2)

`Are Men Naturally Cleverer than Women?', The Englishwoman's Journal, vol. 2, 1859, pp. 333-36

(1)

`Types of Character', by Bessie Parkes, The Englishwoman's Review, vol. 1, 1866, pp. 5-12

(3)

`Correspondence', The Englishwoman's Review, vol. 19, 1888, pp. 494-96

(2)

`Journalism as a Profession for Women', by Frances Power Cobbe, Women's Penny Paper, vol. 1, 1888, p. 5

(2)

The Magazine for young women and girls

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Cover, The Young Ladies' Journal, Sept., 1869

(2)

`Only A Flirtation', by A. C., The Young Ladies' Reader, vol. 1, 1881, p. 7

(2)

`On Housekeeping', by Eleanor Bairdsmith, Atalanta, vol. 4, 1890, pp. 346-48

(2)

`Life Behind the Counter', by C. J. Hamilton, The Young Woman, vol. 1, 1892, pp. 128-30

(2)

`The New Woman', The Monthly Packet, vol. 89, 1895, pp. 128-30

(1)

`Our Girls A-Wheel', Girls' Own Paper, vol. 18, 1897, pp. 220-21

(2)

`Helpful Advice. Freely given by your Editor', Sweethearts, vol. 1, no. 17, 1898, p. 11

(2)

`A Chat with the Girl of the Period', by The Editor, Girls' Realm, vol. 1, 1899, p. 216

(3)

The cheap domestic magazine

(11)

Cover, Woman, no. 224, 1894

(1)

`Fireside Talks', Home Notes, vol. 2, 1895, pp. 193-94

(3)

`Toilet Queries', Home Chat, vol. 5, 1901, pp. 510-11; Home Chat: facing advertising and children's pages, vol. 4, 1900, pp. 118-19

(3)

Cover, Woman's Life, vol. 1, 1895

(1)

`Madge Smith's Revenge', Woman's Life, vol. 1, 1895, pp. 76-78

(4)

PART II

Mastheads and covers

(4)

Masthead, The Lady's Own Paper, vol. 2, 1866

(1)

Masthead, The Queen, vol. 87, 1890

(1)

Cover, The Servant's Magazine, vol. 1, new series, no. 4, 1867

(1)

Cover, The Barmaid, vol. 1, no. 1, 1891

(1)

Cover, Home Notes, vol. 2, no. 26, 1894

(1)

Cover, Shafts, vol. 5, no. 4, 1897

(1)

Cover, Sweethearts, vol. 1, no. 2, 1898

(3)

Discursive prose: the article

102

(15)

`Hints to Young Ladies. No. IX. Habits of Conversation', The Mothers' Magazine, vol. 4, 1838, pp. 158-63

102

(2)

`The Women of England in Olden Times. The Anglo-Saxon Ladies', Mrs. Ellis' Morning Call, vol. 1, 1852, pp. 27-33

104

(2)

`The Adventures of Isable Fitzbloomer. Narrated by Herself. In a Confidential Communication to Mrs. Kate Norton', The World of Fashion, vol. 27, 1850, p. 125

106

(1)

`Persia and the Persians', The Ladies' Treasury, vol. 5, 1859, pp. 135-38

107

(2)

`The Use of a Special Periodical', The Alexandra Magazine, vol. 1, 1865, pp. 257-63

109

(2)

`Our Domestic Woes. The Servantgalism of the Period or The Alphabet of Woes', The Lady's Own Paper, vol. 5, 1870, p. 335

111

(3)

`Young Women and Journalism', by W. T. Stead, The Young Woman, vol. 1, 1892, pp. 12-14

114

(3)

Discursive prose: the short paragraph or `tit-bit'

117

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`Flighty Girls and Good Wives' and `Frivolity', Townsend's Monthly Selection of Parisian Costumes, no. 142, 1864, unnumbered page

117

(1)

`Crossing a River in South America' and `Ladies' Thin Shoes', The Ladies' Gazette of Fashion, Oct., 1866, p. 77

117

(2)

`People, Places and Things', Hearth and Home, vol. 2, 1891, p. 136

119

(1)

`Little Bits that Girls Like', Sweethearts, vol. 1, 1898, p. 7

120

(2)

Prose fiction

122

(18)

`Wayfe Summers. Chapter 1. My Guardians', The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, vol. 3, new series, 1861, p. 1

122

(1)

`Poor Meggy; or, The Wages of Sin', The British Workwoman, vol. 3, 1866, p. 275

123

(3)

`Margaret; or The Word ``Obey''', Townsend's Monthly Selection of Parisian Costumes, Dec. 1865, pp. 5-7

126

(3)

`How She Repented', The Queen, vol. 78, 1885, p. 313

129

(2)

`His Brown-Eyed Maiden', by Sarah Capp, Home Notes, vol. 1, 1895, p. 187

131

(2)

`A Lover of High Degree: or, how Norah Flynn Became a Duchess. A romantic story of Unswerving Affection and mad Passion. By Lorna O'Reilley. Author of ``A Splendid Crime,'' ``One Summer's Flirtation,'' ``Jilted,'' ``A Strange Wooing,'' ``Her Heart's Lord,'' etc., etc., etc.', Sweethearts, vol. 1, no. 2, 1898, pp. 1-6

133

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The fashion plate and the fashion feature

140

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Fashion plate, The Ladies' Treasury, vol. 6, 1858

141

(1)

Fashion plate, The World of Fashion, vol. 40, 1864

141

(2)

Fashion page, The Queen, vol. 77, 1885, p. 327

143

(1)

`Home Dressmaking', Home Notes, vol. 1, 1895, pp. 212-13

143

(1)

`Lady Falmouth and Lady Helen Vincent Skating at New Niagara', The World of Dress, vol. 2, 1899, p. 41

144

(1)

Poetry

145

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`Lines Suggested by Hearing the Blackbird Sing in Early Spring', by E. M., The Christian Lady's Magazine, vol. 10, 1855, p. 301

145

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`To My Sister', Blackwood's Lady's Magazine, vol. 40, 1855, pp. 149-50

145

(1)

`Italian Patriotic Song', by E. H., The Englishwoman's Journal, vol. 4, 1860, p. 170

146

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`The Fast Smoking Girl of the Period. Described by Herself', The Girl of the Period Miscellany, vol. 1, 1869, p. 137

146

(1)

`To the Slaves of Fashion', by Chestnut, The Young Englishwoman, vol. 3, 1869, p. 110

147

(1)

`The Rights of Women', The Mother's Friend, vol. 6, 1888, p. 100

148

(1)

`Defeat', by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Home Chat, vol. 6, 1900, p. 100

149

(1)

Political journalism

150

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`The Laws of Property as they Affect Married Women', by Bessie Raynor Parkes, The Ladies' Cabinet, vol. 8, 1856, pp. 295-96

150

(2)

`Should Women be Permitted to Vote? By a Woman', The Ladies' Treasury, vol. 4, 1868, pp. 171-74

152

(1)

`Women and Politics', The Englishwoman's Journal, vol. 12, 1863, pp. 1-6

153

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`The Petticoat in the Politics of England. By Justin McCarthy. Author of ``My Enemy's Daughter,'' ``The Waterdale Neighbours,'' &c.', The Lady's Own Paper, vol. 5, 1870, p. 20

154

(3)

Advertising

157

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Advertisements, The Lady's Newspaper, vol. 1, 1847, p. 378

157

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Advertisements, The Alexandra Magazine, vol. 1, 1865, p. 257

157

(2)

Advertisements, The Queen, vol. 20, 1867, p. 13

159

(2)

Advertisements, The Lady's Own Paper, vol. 9, 1872, p. 541

161

(1)

Advertisements, The Queen, vol. 77, 1885, unnumbered page

161

(1)

Advertisements, The Young Ladies' Journal, vol. 7, 1885, unnumbered page

162

(2)

Advertisements, Woman, 5th Feb., 1891, p. 21; Home Chat, vol. 6, 1901, p. 317

164

(2)

Advice columns and readers' letters

166

(14)

`The Englishwoman's Conversazione', The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, vol. 3, 1854, p. 168

166

(2)

`Open Council', The Alexandra Magazine, vol. 1, 1864, pp. 382-83

168

(2)

`Correspondence', The Lady's Own Paper: `Plea for Boys', vol. 5, 1870, p. 369; `Letter basket', vol. 7, 1872, p. 332

170

(1)

`Answers to Correspondents', Woman, 5th Feb., 1891, p. 21

171

(2)

`Confidential Chat', Forget-Me-Not, vol. 1, no. 3, 1891, p. 16

173

(3)

`The Home of a London Bachelor Girl', Home Notes, vol. 2, 1894, p. 126

176

(1)

`Over the Teacups', by Annie S. Swan, Woman at Home, vol. 5, 1896, pp. 709-10

177

(3)

Reviews

180

(10)

`Notices of Books', The Englishwoman's Journal, vol. 1, 1858, pp. 196-97

180

(1)

`The Book of the Month', The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, vol. 1, new series, 1860, pp. 44-45

181

(3)

`The Lady's Literary Circular', The Rose, the Shamrock and the Thistle, vol. 3, 1863, pp. 669-70

184

(1)

`London Labour and the London Poor', The British Workwoman, vol. 1, 1863, pp. 37-38

185

(1)

`Literary Notices', The Ladies' Treasury, vol. 13, new series, 1876, p. 740

186

(1)

`Exhibition of the Society of Female Artists, 9 Conduit Street', The Englishwoman's Review, vol. 1, 1867, pp. 136-38

187

(2)

`The Theatres', The London and Paris Ladies' Magazine, vol. 46, 1873, p. 8

189

(1)

Competitions

190

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`Notice', The Englishwoma's Domestic Magazine, vol. 3, new series, 1862, p. 144

190

(1)

`Scholarship Competition Page,' Atalanta, vol. 4, 1890, unnumbered page

190

(2)

`The Literary Guild', Hearth and Home, vol. 1, 1891, pp. 76-77

192

(3)

`Why I am an Abstainer. Our Prize Competition', The Woman's Signal, vol. 8, 1894, p. 105

195

(2)

`The Best Hundred Books for a Girl to Read', Home Chat, vol. 2, 1896, p. 431

197

(1)

`Our Prize Story. So Sorry for Her!', by E. S. Curry, Ladies' Fashions, vol. 1, 1897, p. 59

198

(4)

Illustrated biography

202

(10)

`Mrs. Jameson', The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, vol. 2, new series, 1861, pp. 36-37

202

(2)

`Dr. Mary Walker', The Lady's Own Paper, vol. 1, 1866, p. 1

204

(2)

`Out and at Home. Twice Royal or a Royal British Workwoman', by Grace, The British Workwoman, vol. 12, 1879, pp. 36-37

206

(2)

`Miss Ellen Terry', by A. H. Doubleyew, The Ladies' Pictorial, vol. 1, 1880, pp. 1-2

208

(2)

`Some Famous Authors as Girls', by Mrs. Tooley, Girls' Realm, vol. 1, 1899, pp. 447-48

210

(2)

The personal interview

212

(7)

`Interview. Mrs. Florence Fenwick Miller', Women's Penny Paper, vol. 1, no. 18, 1889, p. 1

212

(2)

`How I write my Books. An interview with L. T. Meade', The Young Woman, vol. 6, 1892, pp. 122-23

214

(2)

`A Chat with Mme. Sarah Grand', by Jim's Wife's Husband, Woman, 21st May, 1894, Literary Supplement, pp. i-ii

216

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Bibliography of Titles

219

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Selected Further Reading

229

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