Magazine of Her Own? Domesticity and Desire in the Woman's Magazine, 1800-1914

Contents: Introduction pt. I. The making of the magazine, 1800-50. The 'Fair Sex' and the Magazine: The Early Ladies' Journals The Queen, The Beauty and the Woman Writer Family and Mothers' Magazines: The 1830s and 1840s pt. II. The Beetons: The domestic English woman and the lady, 1850-80. The Beetons and the Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, 1852-60 The Female Body and the Domestic Woman, 1860-80 Re-Making the Lady: The Queen pt. III. New Woman, New Journalism, the 1880s and 1890s. The New Woman and the New Journalism Revolting Daughters, Girton Girls and Advanced Women Advancing into Commodity Culture pt. IV. The reinvention of the domestic English woman: into the twentieth century. Woman at Home: The Middle-Class Domestic Magazine and the Agony Aunt 'Forward But Not Too Fast': The Advanced Magazine? Woman-Talk as Commodity: The Penny Domestic