Women, Work and the Victorian Periodical [electronic resource] : Living by the Press /
Van Remoortel, Marianne.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Machine generated contents note: -- List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Women, Work and the Victorian Press2. Selling Domesticity: Eliza Warren Francis and the Ladies' Treasury3. Threads of Life: Matilda Marian Pullan and Needlework Instruction4. Christina Rossetti and the Economics of Periodical Poetry5. The Fine Art of Satire: Florence and Adelaide Claxton and the Magazines6. Back-Room Workers Stepping Forward: The Compositors of the Victoria PressConclusionBibliographyIndex.
Sociology.
Literature.
British literature.
Social history.
European literature.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
Gender Studies.
Literature, general.
British and Irish Literature.
Social History.
European Literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.