The Girl’s Own Paper, founded in 1880, both shaped and reflected tensions between traditional domestic ideologies of the period and New Woman values in the co

Nineteenth-century British periodicals for girls and women offer a wealth of material to understand how girls and women fit into their social and cultural world

While the gender and age of the girl may seem to remove her from any significant contribution to empire, this book provides both a new perspective on familiar g

From 1830, if not before, the Empire began to permeate the domestic culture of Empire nations in many ways. From consumables, to the excitement of colonial wars