Margaret Beetham: 1 book
A Magazine of Her Own?
Domesticity and Desire in the Woman's Magazine, 1800-1914
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Like the corset, the women's magazines which emerged in the nineteenth century produced a `natural' idea of femininity: the domestic wife; the fashionable woman; the romancing and desirable girl. Their legacy, from agony aunts to fashion plates, are easily traced in their modern counterparts. But...
