Contents Page - Victorian Page

CONTENTS

In the Contents List below indented titles indicate separate pages accessed via the sub-menus. For example: To view "About this Ladies' Page" click the "Ladies' Page" button in the menu on the left; this will take you to the main Ladies Page where the sub-menu will appear. Some incidental items - such as a Bicycling Costume of the 1890s, which appears on the Journalism Page, or a female graduate who passed top of the lists above the "Senior Wrangler", which appears on the Ladies' Page on Beautiful Hair - would not be obvious from page titles or summary of

contents. These items are given with links to the appropriate page under "Incidental Topics".

On the Editor's Jottings Page:
EDITORIAL COLUMNS IN VICTORIAN WOMEN'S MAGAZINES ABOUT THIS PAGE
JOTTINGS- For Dictionary Addicts; For Students Past and Present; External Links
More on Hyacinths; Compliments for Victorian Page
Earlier Jottings: An Apology; Late Summer Gardens in October?; Victorian Fog

On the Features Pages:
JOURNALISM - Victorian Magazines- About Essays and Articles
Want To Be A Journalist? advice from Victorian journalists

On the Ladies' Page:

VICTORIAN Ladies' Pages - An Introduction to Women's Columns
VICTORIAN WOMEN'S MAGAZINES - An Introduction to Victorian Women's Magazines
    About this Ladies' Page -PAGE OUTLINE of future content
    Ladies' Page - Fashion - Victorian Illustrations and Dress Patterns;
          Rational Dress for Sports
    Ladies' Page - The Crinoline - Fashion Illustrations;Victorian views on Crinoline; Petticoats; Millinery
    Ladies' Page - Beauty Secrets- Beautiful Hair - Victorian hair care,            hairstyles, dyes, wigs, hair ornaments
    Ladies' Page - Skin Deep- Complexion:Cosmetics and "Painting"
       Victorian Remedies for Spots and Blemishes

On the Ladies' Feature Page:
GARDEN COLUMNS in WOMEN'S MAGAZINES
GARDENING CURIOSITIES


Victorian New Year - Victorian Present-giving


On the Literature Pages:
BOOK REVIEWS IN VICTORIAN WOMEN'S MAGAZINES
A MID-CENTURY REVIEW IN DIALOGUE
       Review Page - Verdicts- On Wordsworth, Keats, Byron; Note on         William Cox Bennett

On the Advertising Page:
VICTORIAN MAGAZINES & their ADVERTISEMENTS
TWO ADVERTISING GIMMICKS
ADVERTISEMENTS USING COLOUR

In the Editor's Mailbag
READER'S LETTERS- More on Mr Tye and Hyacinth Bottles; A "Middles" Competition - A Question and Answer; A Question of Identity - Can you Help?; Canadian women journalists; William Cox Bennett

READER'S LETTERS TO VICTORIAN MAGAZINES
EDITORIAL REBUKES to VICTORIAN READERS
       Victorian Agony Aunts
       Contact the Editor

In the Archive
INTRODUCTION TO THE ARCHIVE
    Autumn and Winter Gardens- Autumn Colour; Glasshouses and             Ferneries
    Late Summer Gardening - A Wet English Summer (Mary                     Mitford);
    Cultivation of Bulbs particularly Hyacinths; A Tulip Jardiniere
In the Christmas Supplement:
VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS - The Christmas Tree
VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS ISSUES AND ANNUALS
    Christmas Fare - Puddings and Pies - Victorian Christmas Feast -     Turkey stuffing; Christmas Puddings; Mince Pies; A Disastrous               Victorian Christmas Dinner
    Victorian Christmas - Christmas in Hospital; Producing a                         Pantomime; Burlesque
    Christmas Crackers - Puzzles. Jokes, Parlour Games, Crackers

INCIDENTAL TOPICS - Pictures and/or Paragraphs
Click the link to take you to the correct page and scroll down to the *asterisked item. Where more than one such paragraph appears on the same page you will find the link below is followed by a number indicating the order of appearance.

Crime - Prison Life(1)
Crime - Constance Kent, convicted murdress (1)
The New Woman - Bicycling Costume(2)
The New Woman - "Senior Wrangler" (1)
The New Woman - and Advertising
The New Woman - Competition Entries (3)
Advertisements- Beauty Products (2)
Almanac (calendar)
Fiction in French (2)
Book distribution in the provinces
"Pork Pie" millinery (1)
"The Girl of the Period"
Needlework - Needlework competitions
Needlework - Jardiniere (2)
Fancywork (3)
The Language of Flowers(1)
Society Gossip Columns
Street Photographer (2)

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