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)

For important information on Copyright, Citations, Images and References please see my Home Page. There you will also find an explanation of the aims of Victorian Page, and  a note about me.

©  Barbara Onslow June 2007           


 Material on this page last updated August 31st 2010