{"product_id":"the-ladys-magazine-1770-1832-and-the-making-of-literary-history-paperback","title":"The Lady's Magazine (1770-1832) and the Making of Literary History - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJennie Batchelor\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn December 1840, Charlotte Bront? 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Lady's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e. Across six chapters devoted to the publication's eclectic and evolving contents, as well as its readers and contributors, \u003ci\u003eThe Lady's Magazine (1770-1832) and the Making of Literary History\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first major study of one of the most influential periodicals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries 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. Jennie Batchelor is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of Kent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJennie Batchelor is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of Kent. She has published widely on eighteenth-century women's writing, material culture, gender, sexuality and the body and women's periodicals. Her most recent books include \u003ci\u003eWomen's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1690s-1820s\u003c\/i\u003e, co-edited with Manushag N. Powell (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018) and \u003ci\u003eWomen's Work: Labour, Gender, Authorship, 1750-1830\u003c\/i\u003e (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010). She also co-devised (with Alison Larkin) the popular history\/craft book \u003ci\u003eJane Austen Embroidery\u003c\/i\u003e (London: Pavilion 2020), which reprints and contextualises 15 needlework projects from the Lady's Magazine for modern stitchers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.67 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 31, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43349856616515,"sku":"9781474487658","price":58.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/4399\/2899\/files\/463dab9b2e7c6ea66f54d6d1c0a91d38.webp?v=1780846005","url":"https:\/\/store7994.com\/products\/the-ladys-magazine-1770-1832-and-the-making-of-literary-history-paperback","provider":"STORE 7994","version":"1.0","type":"link"}