The Lady’s Magazine (1770–1832) and the Making of Literary History
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Published:31st May '24
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In December 1840, Charlotte Brontë wrote in a letter to Hartley Coleridge that she wished ‘with all [her] heart’ that she ‘had been born in time to contribute to the Lady’s magazine’. Nearly two centuries later, the cultural and literary importance of a monthly publication that for six decades championed women’s reading and women’s writing has yet to be documented. This book offers the first sustained account of The Lady’s Magazine. Across six chapters devoted to the publication’s eclectic and evolving contents, as well as its readers and contributors, The Lady’s Magazine (1770–1832) and the Making of Literary History illuminates the periodical’s achievements and influence, and reveals what this vital period of literary history looks like when we see it anew through the lens of one of its most long-lived and popular publications.
One cannot help but admire the convincing and detailed discussion of so many facets of this protean periodical. Batchelor seems have ferreted out every detail and every contributor, even the most elusive, to construct her argument in favor of appreciating the magazine’s role in the period. This monograph is an exemplary work of scholarship. One might add that the prose and the argument are engaging and well supplied with illustrations, even as the Lady’s Magazine was. -- James Najarian, Boston College * European Romantic Review *
[...] this is an exemplary work of scholarship which certainly enriches our understanding of women's writing and literary history. -- Jock Macleod, Griffith University * Review19 *
Jennie Batchelor’s tour de force scholarship on this crucial Anglophone women’s periodical upends critical assumptions about genre, readership and meaning. Batchelor’s expertise in the "unRomantic" Lady’s Magazine – a vast literary collection in and of itself – is unrivalled. This is a level of periodical scholarship not seen for decades; a triumph. -- Manushag N. Powell, Purdue University
- Winner of Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize 2023
ISBN: 9781474487658
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320 pages