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  • 18 - Women Journalists and Periodical Spaces
  • from Part IV - Making Space for Women
    • By Joanne Shattock, Emeritus Professor of Victorian Literature at the University of Leicester.
  • Edited by Alexis Easley, University of St Thomas, Minnesota, Clare Gill, Beth Rodgers, Aberystwyth University
  • Book: Women, Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1830s–1900s
  • Published by: Edinburgh University Press
  • Published online: 25 October 2019
  • Print publication: 03 April 2019, pp 306-318
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    ON THE MORNING of her death on 16 February 1895, the journalist and novelist Camilla Crosland (1812–95) received an early copy of Chambers's Edinburgh Journal for 23 February containing her essay on ‘politeness.’ It was her last contribution to the famous weekly, ending an association that had begun in 1841. According to her autobiography, Landmarks of a Literary Life 1820–1892 (1893), Crosland's writing career, like that of many of her female contemporaries, began out of necessity. Born into the ‘cultivated middle classes,’ as she described them (Crosland 1893: 17), her education was cut short by her father's sudden death, when she was required to find a means of supporting herself and her mother. Having tried ‘governessing,’ she then turned to writing. A poem she published in Bentley's Miscellany caught the eye of Robert Chambers, of the Edinburgh publishing firm, and led to an invitation to write for the Journal and to a lifelong friendship with the Chambers brothers. The Countess of Blessington was another patron, offering her opportunities to write for the annual Book of Beauty and later to the Keepsake. Leitch Ritchie, editor of Friendship's Offering, appointed her to the unofficial post of subeditor in the early 1840s, for which she was remunerated.

    Crosland was advantaged by having been born and based in London. Landmarks of a Literary Life recounts the literary parties and receptions to which she was invited, the most enjoyable of which were the ‘at homes’ of the novelist and editor Anna Maria Hall and her husband Samuel Carter Hall at their cottage ‘the Rosery’ in old Brompton, where writers, artists, and publishers crowded into the small rooms on Thursday afternoons. Writers’ knowledge of one another did not depend solely on these social occasions, as Crosland emphasised: ‘It must be remembered that literary people, of whatever grade, who know each other through the pen, never do meet as strangers’ (1893: 153). Her memoir illustrates the intimate world of literary London of the 1840s and 1850s, and the ease with which writers and artists of different backgrounds and degrees of seniority mingled. It also illustrates the ready acceptance of women writers in these circles.

Journalism and the Periodical Press in Nineteenth-Century Britain
  • Journalism and the Periodical Press in Nineteenth-Century Britain
  • Edited by Joanne Shattock
  • Published online: 24 March 2017
  • Print publication: 16 March 2017
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    Newly commissioned essays by leading scholars offer a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the diversity, range and impact of the newspaper and periodical press in nineteenth-century Britain. Essays range from studies of periodical formats in the nineteenth century - reviews, magazines and newspapers - to accounts of individual journalists, many of them eminent writers of the day. The uneasy relationship between the new 'profession' of journalism and the evolving profession of authorship is investigated, as is the impact of technological innovations, such as the telegraph, the typewriter and new processes of illustration. Contributors go on to consider the transnational and global dimensions of the British press and its impact in the rest of the world. As digitisation of historical media opens up new avenues of research, the collection reveals the centrality of the press to our understanding of the nineteenth century.
  • 2 - Becoming a professional writer
  • from Part I - Victorian women writers’ careers
  • Edited by Linda H. Peterson, Yale University, Connecticut
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Writing
  • Published online: 05 October 2015
  • Print publication: 14 October 2015, pp 29-42
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