Women, Work and the Victorian Periodical: Living by the Press
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.
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Women, Work and the Victorian Periodical: Living by the Press
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.
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Women, Work and the Victorian Periodical: Living by the Press

Women, Work and the Victorian Periodical: Living by the Press

by Marianne Van Remoortel
Women, Work and the Victorian Periodical: Living by the Press

Women, Work and the Victorian Periodical: Living by the Press

by Marianne Van Remoortel

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781137435996
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 08/24/2015
Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 189
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Marianne Van Remoortel is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the Department of Literary Studies, Ghent University, Belgium.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Women, Work and the Victorian Press
2. Selling Domesticity: Eliza Warren Francis and the Ladies' Treasury
3. Threads of Life: Matilda Marian Pullan and Needlework Instruction
4. Christina Rossetti and the Economics of Periodical Poetry
5. The Fine Art of Satire: Florence and Adelaide Claxton and the Magazines
6. Back-Room Workers Stepping Forward: The Compositors of the Victoria Press
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

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