Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1690–1820s: The Long Eighteenth Century eds. by Jennie Batchelor and Manushag N. Powell (review)

According to Batchelor and Powell, women made up a significant portion of the readership of periodicals traditionally associated with men; likewise, periodicals ostensibly geared exclusively toward women catered to a readership that included men as well. [...]Evan Hayles Gledhill, discussing the Lady's Monthly Museum (1798–1828), describes how communities of female fans developed around periodical fiction—particularly Gothic and romantic fiction. [...]Serena Dyer describes how the Repository of Arts (1809–28), which featured visual images of popular London shops and samples of fabric from British manufacturers, both contributed to the notion of the ideal female consumer—urban, productive, socially conscious, and patriotic—and taught women how they could fulfill that ideal.