Presents 35 thematically organised, research-led essays on women, periodicals and print culture in Victorian Britain.

`Simply a great work of reference. Future scholars will wonder how anybody managed without the Wellesley Index. It will quietly change the whole nature of Victo

This collection reveals the variety of literary forms and visual media through which travel records were conveyed in the long nineteenth century, bringing toget

This book offers the first extended account of the mid-century rise of ‘model women of the press’: women who not only stormed the male bastions of social an