Women, work and the Victorian periodical : living by the press / Marianne Van Remoortel, Postdoctoral Researcher, Ghent University, Belgium.

9781137435996 (electronic book)
1137435992 (electronic book)
9781137435989
1137435984

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

English

1 online resource (ix, 189 pages) : illustrations

PN5124.P4 V35 2015eb

052.082/09034

"Covering a wide range of magazine work by women, including editing, illustration, poetry, needlework instruction and typesetting, this book provides fresh insights into the participation of women in the nineteenth-century magazine industry. The common thread running through the chapters is the question of how women negotiated the relationship between their public and private selves. Quite often, that relationship turns out to be one of tension and contrast. In order to generate an income, women constructed fictional identities and voiced norms and ideals to which they themselves did not always adhere. Restoring a voice to overlooked authors and adopting new perspectives towards canonical figures, this book traces the different ways in which these women reinvented themselves in the press and addresses the various circumstances that led them to do so"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture.

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