This book integrates new material, using sources from the eighteenth and nineteenth century periodical press, research with contemporary readers, the authors' c
Like the corset, the women's magazines which emerged in the nineteenth century produced a `natural' idea of femininity: the domestic wife; the fashionable woman
This book integrates new material, using sources from the eighteenth and nineteenth century periodical press, research with contemporary readers, the authors' c
Women have been important contributors to and readers of magazines since the development of the periodical press in the nineteenth century. By the mid-twentieth