Women, work and the Victorian periodical
Subtitle: living by the press
By: Marianne Van Remoortel, Postdoctoral Researcher, Ghent University, Belgium
Series: Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781137435989
Subjects: Literature publishing; Women; English periodicals; Publishing; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Intellectual life; Periodicals; LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors; Authors and publishers; Women and literature; Press; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Eastern (see also Russian & Former Soviet Union); Employment; 19th century; History
Description: "Covering a wide range of magazine work by women, including editing, illustration, poetry, needlework instruction and typesetting, this book provides fresh insights into the participation of women in the nineteenth-century magazine industry. The common thread running through the chapters is the question of how women negotiated the relationship between their public and private selves. Quite often, that relationship turns out to be one of tension and contrast. In order to generate an income, women constructed fictional identities and voiced norms and ideals to which they themselves did not always adhere. Restoring a voice to overlooked authors and adopting new perspectives towards canonical figures, this book traces the different ways in which these women reinvented themselves in the press and addresses the various circumstances that led them to do so"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: 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.