Victorian Page - Contents 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 Features Pages:
JOURNALISM - Victorian Magazines- About Essays and Articles
Want To Be A Journalist? advice from Victorian journalists
Job-hunting hints for those students taking Communications at Work this year. Interesting for anyone considering journalism as a career, as some of the advice has survived the passage of time. The Introduction to "Features" here also includes an item of interest those who enjoyed my "Victorian Crime: Fiction and Fact" course.

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 - 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


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

In the Editor's Mailbag
EDITORIAL REBUKES to VICTORIAN READERS
VICTORIAN AGONY AUNTS
READER'S LETTERS- A Question of Identity - Can you Help?; Canadian women journalists; William Cox Bennett
       Contact the Editor

In the Archive
INTRODUCTION TO THE ARCHIVE
       Autumn and Winter Gardens- Autumn Colour; Glasshouses and             Ferneries
        Victorian Christmas - Christmas in Hospital; Producing a                         Pantomime; Burlesque
       Christmas Fare - Puddings and Pies
       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. Occasionally more than one such paragraph appears on the same page; in this case you will find the link below is followed by a number indicating the order of appearance.

The New Woman - Bicycling Costume
The New Woman - "Senior Wrangler" (1)
The New Woman - and Advertising
Advertisements- Beauty Products
Prison Life
Book distribution in the provinces
"Pork Pie" millinery
"The Girl of the Period"
Needlework competitions
Fancywork (2)

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