Alexis Easley, New Media and the Rise of the Popular Woman Writer, 1832–1860

Professor Alexis Easley’s book examines the development of new media around the middle of the nineteenth century and its consequences for popular women writers, giving them the opportunity of entering the literary market and endowing them with a mission as national instructors. More precisely, Easley points out the growing number of Sunday papers and of cheap family periodicals, both playing an important role in the context of domestic culture and respectability. As is well known, this was ma...