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Informationen zum Autor Marianne Van Remoortel is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the Department of Literary Studies, Ghent University, Belgium. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
List 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
About the author
Marianne Van Remoortel is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the Department of Literary Studies, Ghent University, Belgium.
