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

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

This book focuses on women's magazines, on how they are read and the role they play in their readers' lives.

Focusing on the historical development of the British women's magazine, this book begins with descriptions of different kinds of magazines. This is followed by