Late-Victorian Girls and their Manuscript Magazines
Girlhood and Textual Transformation in Britain, 1860-1900
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“This book is engaging and well-written, and it makes an original contribution to our understanding of Victorian girlhood in the last decades of the nineteenth century and manuscript magazine culture during this period. Burke is an expert in this field, and she marshals these interesting and relatively unknown materials in intriguing ways to discuss girls and their contributions to literary culture through manuscript publications.”
—Kristine Moruzi, Associate Professor in Literary Studies, Deakin University, Australia
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.
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.
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.
This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access Explores and explains the lesser-known format of manuscript magazines Showcases child-made evidence through previously unpublished archival material Offers unique insight into non-canonical writers and Victorian print culture, and the accompanying social dynamics
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Lois Burke
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Open Access Manuscript Cultures Magazines and Periodicals History of Childhood Transformative Writing Girlhood Victorian Literature Literature and Childhood Childhood Studies
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“This book is engaging and well-written, and it makes an original contribution to our understanding of Victorian girlhood in the last decades of the nineteenth century and manuscript magazine culture during this period. Burke is an expert in this field, and she marshals these interesting and relatively unknown materials in intriguing ways to discuss girls and their contributions to literary culture through manuscript publications.” (Kristine Moruzi, Associate Professor in Literary Studies, Deakin University, Australia)
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