Late-Victorian Girls and their Manuscript Magazines

Girlhood and Textual Transformation in Britain, 1860-1900
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-86523-7
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 136 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 311 g

This open access book presents fresh archival evidence to explore the underexamined manuscript cultures of girls living in Britain in the late nineteenth century. Girls were keen writers during this period, which witnessed Golden Ages of children's literature and journalism, as well as major developments in proto feminism. Girl writers were particularly prolific in the writing of manuscript magazines. These were handmade magazines in which the contributors were also the readers and subscribers. This book presents three case study chapters exploring manuscript magazines which were created and exchanged amongst girl-led writing groups and within families, and references many other examples of manuscript magazine cultures from the late-Victorian period. It argues that strategies of transformative writing—namely appropriating literary texts—often characterized girls' contributions to manuscript magazines.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burke, Lois

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Verlagswesen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1- Victorian Girls and their Manuscript Magazines, 1860-1900.- Chapter 2- Aspiration and Adaptation in Charlotte Yonge’s the Chapter 3- and Sibling Relationships in Family Manuscript Magazines.- Chapter 4- Community in Girl-led Manuscript Magazines of the 1890s.- Chapter 5- Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Lois Burke is Assistant Professor of Critical Heritage, Innovation, and Curation at Tilburg University, The Netherlands. She teaches and publishes on children's literature, Victorian studies, life writing, Scottish literature, and cultural heritage.