The Lady’s Magazine (1770-1832) and the Making of Literary History

Jennie Batchelor

book: The Lady’s Magazine (1770-1832) and the Making of Literary History

Open Access Published by Edinburgh University Press 2022

The Lady’s Magazine (1770-1832) and the Making of Literary History

Jennie Batchelor

In the series Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474487665

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The first major study of one of the most influential periodicals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

Provides the first major study of one of the most influential periodicals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Interrogates and revises critical commonplaces and narratives about form, authorship, reading and gender through rigorous archival research on the magazine’s authors, readers, printers and publishers
Maps new directions in eighteenth-century and Romantic studies, women’s writing, and media and cultural history by modelling innovative and interdisciplinary methodologies for historical periodical studies
Moves the women’s magazine from the periphery to the centre of eighteenth-century and Romantic print culture

In December 1840, Charlotte Brontë wrote in a letter to Hartley Coleridge that she wished ‘with all [her] heart’ that she ‘had been born in time to contribute to the Lady’s magazine’. Nearly two centuries later, the cultural and literary importance of a monthly publication that for six decades championed women’s reading and women’s writing has yet to be documented. This book offers the first sustained account of The Lady’s Magazine. Across six chapters devoted to the publication’s eclectic and evolving contents, as well as its readers and contributors, The Lady’s Magazine (1770–1832) and the Making of Literary History illuminates the periodical’s achievements and influence, and reveals what this vital period of literary history looks like when we see it anew through the lens of one of its most long-lived and popular publications.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Introduction Open Access Download PDF	1
1. Origins: The Birth of the Women’s Magazine Open Access Download PDF	12
2. Beginnings: The Making of the Lady’s Magazine (1770–2) Open Access Download PDF	42
3. Modes, Media and Miscellaneity: The Contents of the Lady’s Magazine Open Access Download PDF	80
4. Authors, Readers, Writing Cultures Open Access Download PDF	124
5. Rivals: The Changing Face of the Women’s Magazine Open Access Download PDF	162
6. Achievements and Legacies: The Lady’s Magazine in Literary History Open Access Download PDF	210
Afterword Open Access Download PDF	242
Notes Open Access Download PDF	245
Select Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	283
Index Open Access Download PDF	297

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 320
Illustrations
- Other: 38 B/W illustrations 38 black and white illustrations
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: August 31, 2022
ISBN: 9781474487665