List of 18th-century British periodicals for women

According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, "In the 18th century, when women were expected to participate in social and political life, those magazines aimed primarily at women were relatively robust and stimulating in content."[1] Here follows a list of some of the major British periodicals marketed to women in the period. Between them they cover a wide range of material, from Augustan periodical essays,[2] to advice,[3] to mathematical puzzles,[4] to fashion.[5] Some were written and edited by women and others by men. In many cases, both editorship and individual authorship is obscure.

Periodicals marketed to women

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Notable contributions by women to general periodicals

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Images

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See also

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Further reading

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  • Adburgham, Alison. Women in print: writing women and women's magazines from the Restoration to the accession of Victoria. London: Allen and Unwin, 1972. ISBN 0040700054
  • Batchelor, Jennie, and Manushag N. Powell, eds. Women's periodicals and print culture in Britain, 1690-1820s: the long eighteenth century. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. ISBN 9781474419659
  • Berry, Helen. Gender, Society and Print Culture in Late-Stuart England: The Cultural World of the Athenian Mercury. Taylor & Francis, 2017. ISBN 9781351934398, ISBN 1351934392
  • Clery, E. The Feminization Debate in Eighteenth-Century England: Literature, Commerce and Luxury. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. ISBN 9780230509047, ISBN 0230509045
  • Conboy, Martin. Journalism: A Critical History. SAGE Publications2004. ISBN 9781446224915, ISBN 1446224910
  • Maurer, Shawn L. Proposing men: dialectics of gender and class in the eighteenth-century English periodical. Stanford University Press, 1998. ISBN 0804733538