“Wide-ranging and rich in implication, British Victorian Women's Periodicals contributes to publishing history, women's studies, and cultural studies. What Ledbetter provides is in part a documentary history of women's lives and reading practices and in part a materialist literary history that presents the poetic careers of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Grace Aguilar, and a host of other women poets in a new light. She makes a spirited case that women's periodicals formed a site of power rather than mere indoctrination for its women readers, and that latter-day scholars must approach this popular literature on its own terms.”—Linda K. Hughes, Addie Levy Professor of Literature, Texas Christian University
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British Victorian Women’s Periodicals explores themes and patterns of poetry publication in a variety of women's periodicals published throughout the Victorian era to answer questions about taste, style, and the significance of poetry to our understanding of women’s lives in the nineteenth century. Ledbetter shows how the periodical’s advice about maintaining or acquiring social respectability through appropriate fashion, good behavior, and regulation of the household is seamlessly integrated with poetry that aimed to inspire, teach, and cultivate feeling. This book questions traditional evaluations of nineteenth-century sentimental poetry, and argues for a consideration of women’s poetry within its own cultural milieu.
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In an anonymous essay published in the November 1832 issue of the New Monthly Magazine, L.E.L. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon) defined the origin and use of poetry as originating "in that idea of superior beauty and excellence inherent in every nature-and it is employed to keep that idea alive; and the very belief in excellence is one cause of its existence" ("Ancient and Modern" 160). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Woman's World, Eliza Cook, Lady's Realm, Violet Fane, New Woman, Camilla Toulmin, Mary Howitt, Amy Levy, Margaret Beetham, New Monthly Belle Assemblée, Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, Grace Aguilar, Caroline Norton, Elizabeth Youatt, Christian Lady's Magazine, Maria Abdy, Christian Mother's Magazine, Poetry of the Months, Della Cruscan, Felicia Hemans, Home Chat, Drama of Exile, Cornwell-Baron Wilson, Lady's Newspaper, Book of Beauty Browse Sample Pages:
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