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Explores the link between revolutionary change in the Victorian world of print and women's entry into the field of mass-market publishing Explores the relationship between the rise of new media during the early decades of the Victorian era and the opportunities that arose for women to write for emerging mass-market audiences Brings to light archival materials that illuminate the working lives of women writers, 1832-60 Situates canonical women writers within emerging media and introduces the careers of a variety of lesser known authors of the period This book highlights the integral relationship between the rise of the popular woman writer and the expansion and diversification of newspaper, book and periodical print media during a period of unprecedented change, 1832 1860. It includes discussions of canonical women writers such as Felicia Hemans, Charlotte Bront and George Eliot, as well as lesser-known figures such as Eliza Cook and Frances Brown. It also examines the ways in which women readers actively responded to a robust popular print culture by creating scrapbooks and engaging in forms of celebrity worship. At the same time, it demonstrates how Victorian women's participation in popular print culture anticipates our own engagement with new media in the twenty-first century.

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"""In this well-illustrated, well-documented study of nineteenth-century print culture, Alexis Easley demonstrates how popular publications created celebrity for women editors and authors, and shows how scrapbooking fads worked as an extension of new media opportunities for the expression of women's values and sentiments."" -Kathryn Ledbetter, Texas State University"

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Alexis Easley is Professor of English at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is the author of First-Person Anonymous: Women Writers and Victorian Print Media, 1830 70 (Ashgate, 2004) and Literary Celebrity, Gender, and Victorian Authorship, 1850 1914 (Delaware UP, 2011). She co-edited The Routledge Handbook to Nineteenth-Century Periodicals and Newspapers and Researching the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press: Case Studies (Routledge, 2016 & 2017, both recipients of the Colby Prize), with Andrew King and John Morton. Her third essay collection, Women, Periodicals, and Print Culture in Britain, 1830s 1900s, co-edited with Clare Gill and Beth Rodgers, was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2019. Her current book project is titled New Media and the Rise of the Popular Woman Writer, 1832 60 (forthcoming, Edinburgh University Press, 2021). This project was a 2019 recipient of the Linda H. Peterson Prize awarded by the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals.

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