Presents 35 thematically organised, research-led essays on women, periodicals and print culture in Victorian Britain.

`Simply a great work of reference. Future scholars will wonder how anybody managed without the Wellesley Index. It will quietly change the whole nature of Victo

Examines the cultural and social aspects of travel writing on Africa, Asia, America, the Balkans, and Australasia.

Drawing on research into the book-production records of twelve publishers-including George Bell & Son, Richard Bentley, William Blackwood, Chatto & Windus, Oliv