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Author:

Ledbetter, Kathryn.

Title:

British Victorian women's periodicals : beauty, civilization, and poetry / Kathryn Ledbetter.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

xiii, 236 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

English poetry--19th century--History and criticism.
Women--Great Britain--Intellectual life--19th century.
Women and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Journalism and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Literature publishing--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Poetry--History--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Women's periodicals, English--History--19th century.
Aesthetics, British--19th century

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-230) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: The necessity of poetry in Victorian women's magazines -- Representing feminine power and work -- Reluctant prophets: moral themes and exhortations -- Encoding beauty -- Editors and magazine poets -- Conclusion: Why poetry?

Series:

Nineteenth-century major lives and letters

ISBN:

023060126X (alk. paper)
9780230601260 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)244005105

LCCN:

2008034622

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)