List of Figures and Plates
Introduction: Women and the Birth of Periodical Culture
Part I Learning for the Ladies
Learning for the Ladies: Introduction
1 Periodicals and the Problem of Women’s Learning
2 Discontinuous Reading and Miscellaneous Instruction for British Ladies
3 Constructing Women’s History in the Lady’s Museum
4 Vindications and Reflections: The Lady’s Magazine during the Revolution Controversy (1789–1795)
Part II The Poetics of Periodicals
The Poetics of Periodicals: Introduction
5 Dunton and Singer after the Athenian Mercury: Two Plots of Platonic Love
6 Women’s Poetry in the Magazines
7 ‘A lasting wreath of various hue’: Hannah Cowley, the Della Cruscan Affair, and the Medium of the Periodical Poem
8 The Lady’s Poetical Magazine and the Fashioning of Women’s Literary Space
Part III Periodicals Nationally and Internationally
Periodicals Nationally and Internationally: Introduction
9 Protesting the Exclusivity of the Public Sphere: Delarivier Manley’s Examiner
10 ‘A moral paper! And how do you expect to get money by it?’: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Journalism
11 Eliza Haywood’s Periodicals in Wartime
12 German Women’s Writing in British Magazines, 1760–1820
13 Travel Writing and Mediation in the Lady’s Magazine: Charting ‘the meridian of female reading’
Part IV Print Media and Print Culture
Print Media and Print Culture: Introduction
14 ‘[L]et a girl read’: Periodicals and Women’s Literary Canon Formation
15 Reviewing Women: Women Reviewers on Women Novelists
16 Reviewing Femininity: Gender and Genre in the Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press
17 ‘Full of pretty stories’: Fiction in the Lady’s Magazine (1770–1832)
18 ‘This Lady is Descended from a Good Family’: Women and Biography in British Magazines, 1770–1798
19 Suitable Reading Material: Fandom and Female Pleasure in Women’s Engagement with Romantic Periodicals
Part V Theorising the Periodical in Text and Practice
Theorising the Periodical in Text and Practice: Introduction
20 The Ladies Mercury
21 John Dunton’s Ladies Mercury and the Eighteenth-Century Female Subject
22 Frances Brooke, Editor, and the Making of the Old Maid (1755–1756)
23 Eyes that Eagerly ‘Bear the Steady Ray of Reason’: Eidolon as Activist in Charlotte Lennox’s Lady’s Museum
24 ‘[T]o cherish Female ingenuity, and to conduce to Female improvement’: The Birth of the Woman’s Magazine
25 The Woman behind the Man behind the World: Mary Wells and the Feminisation of the Late Eighteenth-Century Newspaper
Part VI Fashion, Theatre, and Celebrity
Fashion, Theatre, and Celebrity: Introduction
26 Advertising Women: Gender and the Vendor in the Print Culture of the Medical Marketplace, 1660–1830
27 Theatrical, Periodical, Authorial: Frances Brooke’s Old Maid (1755–1756)
28 Fast Fashion: Style, Text, and Image in Late Eighteenth-Century Women’s Periodicals
29 Magazine Miniatures: Portraits of Actresses, Princesses, and Queens in Late Eighteenth-entury Periodicals
30 Fashioning Consumers: Ackermann’s Repository of Arts and the Cultivation of the Female Consumer
Appendix
Notes on Contributors
Index