Writing for Social Change in Temperance Periodicals - Conviction and Career

This book suggests alternative ways of looking at what made a writer, what people gained from writing, and explores the alternative world of temperance periodicals of the 19th and early 20th century. Introducing now-forgotten writers who, in their thousands, kept the Victorian periodical presses rolling, and the public entertained.

List of contents

Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1. Conviction and Career
2. Clara Lucas Balfour: writing and lecturing as symbiotic vocation
3. William Hoyle: editor, poet, and songsmith
4. Mary Anna Paull: the flowering of a temperance novelist
5. Frank Adkins: special agent with a drive to write
6. Alfred J. Glasspool: juggling the Guildhall and the lecture hall
7. Walter N. Edwards: a life in scientific temperance
8. Mary Magdalen Forrester: from the dye tub to the editor’s chair
9. Conclusion
Index

About the author

Dr. Annemarie McAllister is Senior Research Fellow in History at the University of Central Lancashire and has a background in literature and cultural history, with a special interest in periodicals and print culture. She has written widely on the cultural, social, and political history of the UK temperance movement, and edited a volume of The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs on "Temperance Past and Present" in 2019.

Summary

This book suggests alternative ways of looking at what made a writer, what people gained from writing, and explores the alternative world of temperance periodicals of the 19th and early 20th century. Introducing now-forgotten writers who, in their thousands, kept the Victorian periodical presses rolling, and the public entertained.

Product details

• Authors: Annemarie Mcallister, McAllister Annemarie
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.11.2022
• EAN: 9781032069937
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3206993-7
• No. of pages: 168
• Series: The Nineteenth Century Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Society & culture: general, LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Politics, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Society and culture: general, Yearbooks, annuals, almanacs