Category:The Young Englishwoman

Title: The Young Englishwoman

Editor: Isabella Beeton; Samuel O. Beeton (1864-1866); Matilda Browne; Graham R. Tomson (Rosamund Marriott Watson) (1893-1894)^[1]  

Publisher: Samuel O. Beeton; Ward, Lock and Co; Ward, Lock and Co and Bowden Ltd; Ward, Lock and Tyler (1866-1867); Warwick House^[2] 

The first issue of The Young Englishwoman was published in December of 1864 and began being sold for one penny with its price and popularity increasing over time. It was pronounced to be a magazine of “fiction and entertaining literature, music, poetry, fine arts, fashions, and useful and ornamental needlework.”^[3] True to its title, The Young Englishwoman was directed toward a young, female, middle-class audience and treated mostly household matters such as needlework, recipes, house-hold management tips and fashion. The literature of the magazine, namely its poetry and fiction, seems to deal with such domestic topics and themes as well with an apparent emphasis on love, courtship and marriage. The Young Englishwoman started out as a weekly magazine but, as editors and publishers changed over time, it became a monthly periodical. The magazine was first published and edited by the well-known Beeton couple, Samuel Orchart Beeton and his wife, Isabella Mary Beeton. The Young Englishwoman descended from the Beeton’s other popular periodical directed toward middle-class women, the Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine.^[4] However, The Young Englishwoman would be the final venture for the Beeton couple. Isabella passed away at twenty-eight years of age from puerperal fever only months after the magazine’s first publication and Samuel subsequently became bankrupt in 1866, forcing him to sell his name and titles to Ward and Lock, later Ward, Lock and Tyler.^[5] Some contributors include R. Anning Bell and Nora Hopper.^[6] The Young Englishwoman continued as Sylvia’s Home Journal in 1878 and later became Sylvia’s Journal in 1892 until its publication ceased in 1894. ^[7]

Notes

1. ↑ WD
2. ↑ WD
3. ↑ WD
4. ↑ Ledbetter, Kathryn. British Victorian Women’s Periodicals: Beauty, Civilization, and Poetry. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Google Book Search. Web. 12 Feb 2014.
5. ↑ Beetham, Margaret, Laurel Brake, and Marysa Demoor. Dictionary of Nineteenth-century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland.Acedemia Press, 2009. Google Book Search. Web. 12 Feb 2014.
6. ↑ WD
7. ↑ Moruzi, Dr. Kristine. Constructing Girlhood through the Periodical Press, 1850-1915. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2012. Google Book Search. Web. 12 Feb 2014.

Submitted by: Brundage, Brooke: section 1, Winter 2014