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WOMEN ADVISING WOMEN
Advice Books, Manuals and Journals for Women, 1450-1837
Part 1: Early Womens Journals, c.1700-1832, from the Bodleian Library, Oxford
Detailed Listing
REEL ONE
Catalogue of a Collection of Early Newspapers & Essayists formed by the late John Thomas Hope Esq. 1865.
The Courtyer of Count Baldessar Castilio…
By Henry Denham, 1577.
Shelfmark: Hope 8° 256
An English translation of Castiglione’s ‘Courtier’.
Four books set in black letter:
1 – “entreateth the perfect qualities of a Courtyer”
2 – “of the use of them, and of mery Jestes and Pranckes”
3 – “of the condicions and qualities of wayting Gentlewoman”
4 – “of the ende of a Courtyer, and honest love”.
Cover, bookplate, handwritten title, 7 pp
The Epistle of the Author, 9 pp
Contents, 1p
The First Booke (some annotations, but trimmed), 67pp
The Seconde Booke, 98 pp
The Third Booke, 67 pp
“what ye Gentlewomen of the Palace ought to be”
“I saye that for hir that liveth in Court, me thinke there belongeth unto hir above all other things, a certaine sweetenesse in language that maye delite, whereby she may gently entertaine all kinde of menne wyth talk worth the hearing and honest, and applied to the time and place, and to the degree of the person she communeth withal. Accompanying with sober and quiet maners, and with the honesty that must alwayes be a stay to hir dedes, a ready liveliness of wit, whereby she may declare hir selfe far wide from all dulnesse: but with suche a kind of goodnesse, that she may bee esteemed no lesse chaste, wyse and courteise, than pleasaunt, feat conceited and sober: and therefore must shee keepe a certaine meane verye harde, and (in a maner) dirived of contrarie matters, and come just to certaine limits, but not passe them.”
“Women not inferiour to men”
The Fourth Booke, 68 pp
The Ladies Cabinet Enlarged and Opened: Containing Many Rare Secrets and Rich Ornaments of several kindes and different uses.
By the late Right Honourable and Learned Chymist, the Lord Ruthven. 2nd edition. 1655.
Shelfmark: 8° All Med 4.BS
London, printed by TM for G Bedell, and T Collins, at the middle Temple-Gate, Fleet Street.
An instructional book arranged into three sections concerning:
1 – Preserving, Conserving, Candying etc
2 – Physicks and Chirurgery
3 – Cookery and Housewifery
Each section comprises a collection of brief recipes and instructions (“each Jewel in his peculiar box”). There is a full list of contents at the end of each section.
(viii) + 252 + (xv) pp
Section 1 includes instructions:
“To preserve black Cherryes”, “To preserve green Walnuts”, “To dry Apricocks”, “To make Paste of Almonds”, to make “Syrup of Popies” etc.
Section 2 discusses:
“Aqua Mirablis”, “Water of Snails”, “The use of the oyl of Camomil”, “An oyntment for a Rupture”, “For the worms”, “A Gargle for an unsavory breath”, “For the Canker in a womans brest”, “How to order a woman with child, before, in and after her labour”, “To bring a woman to a speedy birth” and other issues.
Section 3 discribes:
“A Lemmon Sallet”, “Barberry cakes”, “Hoe to make an Italian pudding”, “How to make a fine Crystal Jelly” and other recipes.
The Ladies Behaviour. A Dialogue. Written, Originally in Italian, above an hundred and fifty years agoe,
1693.
Shelfmark: 8° T107(2)Art
London, Printed and sold by Randall Taylor, near Stationers-Hall.
(vi) + 154 pp
“To the Fair Sex.
I Humbly present you, Ladies, with a small Piece, which (if not spoyl’d in the Translation) will, I hope, not only give you some diversion, but be usefull to you all; whether you profess the most rigid value, or give greater indulgence to your Appetites.”
In the form of a dialogue from an old lady to a young lady. It touches upon dress, pleasures, suitable employment in the home, hygiene, husbands, and correct and sensible behaviour.
The Ladies Mercury
Vol 1, No’s 1-4, 1693.
Shelfmark: Nichols Newspapers 8A: (195, 201, 206, 213)
London, Printed for T Pratt.
No 1 – 28 February 1693, 2 pp
No 2 – 6 March 1693, 2 pp
No 3 – 10 March 1693 – 2 pp
No 4 – 17 March 1693 – 2 pp
Possibly the first journal entirely devoted to the interests of women, The Ladies Mercury was a weekly news sheet making two pages an issue. It has much of the outward appearance of other contemporary news sheets such as The Athenian Mercury (1691-1697), printed in London for John Dunton; The Jovial Mercury (1693), printed in London for John Randall; and The Lacedemonian Mercury (a continuation of The London Mercury) (1692), printed and sold in London by Randal Taylor: All feature a mixture of didactic instruction, comment, poetry and advertisements aimed to please, instruct or enlighten their readers.
The first issue opens with an address to “The Athenians”.
“Gentlemen.
Your Worth and Learning to which we must pay a just Esteem, is the occasion of this Address, in which we desire you to excuse this Undertaking, as not at all intended to enchroach upon your Athenian Province. We acquiess to yield up to You that fair and larger Field: the Examination of Learning, Nature, Arts, Sciences, and indeed the whole World; being contented to bound our narrow Speculation, to only that little sublunary, Women. Whilst Religion and Heaven, and other Sublimer Points, are your Gamaliel Studies; We are for sitting down with Martha’s humbler part, a little homely Cookery, the dishing up of a small Treat of Love, &c. Nay, we are ready to give you that Satisfaction, that we will not only confess ourselves unwilling, but if You please, unable to take up any of your Cudgels, as too unwieldy for our weaker Arms….”
The address continues in this vein and is followed by an address “To the Ladies”.
“As the following design is purely Dedicated to Your Service, to court Your Encouragement, and endear Your good Graces towards us; we think it our Duty to your fair Sex, to avow, that we shall not only, with all the zeal and Expedition imaginable, be ready to Answer all Questions You shall vouchsafe to send us; but we shall likewise make it our Study to avoid even the least offensive Syllable, that may give any rude shock to the chastest Ear. We declare ourselves such Religious Homagers of Virtue and Innocence that we would not force a Blush into a Virgin-Cheek, having that true value for Beauty, as to adorn it with no other Vermilion but its own.”
There then follow a series of questions, beginning with one from a lady asking whether she should reveal to her husband, to whom she is devoted, that she had been seduced by “a lewd and infamous Rifler”, prior to her marriage. The nature of the question and the answer given are extremely revealing. Three questions provide the content of the first issue, with a further three in the second, five in the third and five in the fourth and final issue.
The final question, to give a further idea of the content of the journal, is from a Lady who wonders whether she is entitled to persuade her husband not to engage in any activity with her which may put her in child, as learned physicians have counselled that this might place her life at risk.
A Legacy for the Ladies. Or, Characters of the Women of the Age
By the late ingenious Mr Thomas Brown, 1705.
Shelfmark: Hope 8° 1094
“With a Comical View of London and Westminster: Or, The Merry Quack; wherein Physick is Rectified for both the Beaus and Ladies. In Two Parts. The First Part by Mr Thomas Brown: The Second Part by Mr Edward Ward, Author of the London Spy &c.
Printed in London by H Meere, for S Briscoe and sold by J Nutt, near Stationers-Hall.
Dedicated to Madam Dorathea Hubert.
(32) + 192 + (4) pp
“Some Characters may however seem to reflect upon the Sex, and would be Libels, if spoken of the Ladies of this Nation; but they were written in France, where Gallantry, as it is call’d by them, is esteem’d the chief Accomplishment, and Coquetry, clearly carried the Perfection of Female Prudence.”
The Character of:
A Wanton Woman
A Modest Woman
A pretended Godly Woman
A Religious Woman
A Witty Woman
A Prudent Woman
A House-Wife, or a Penurious Woman
A Good House-Wife
A Gaming Woman
A Diligent Woman
A Litigious Woman
Self-Love; or, the Predominant Passion of Women
A Comical View of the Transactions That Will Happen in the Cities of London and Westminster:
First Part, by Thomas Brown
Second Part, by Edward Ward
The Character of:
- A True-Born Dutch, Skipper, a Poem
- A Welsh-man, a Poem
A Satyr upon a Fart
The Character of a Barren Adultress, a Poem
REEL TWO
The Female Tatler
By Mrs Crackenthorpe, a Lady that knows everything.
No’s 1-115. ff 1-142. 1709-10
Shelfmark: Hope fol. 91, item 1
(Modern Philosophy, February 1931 (XXVIII, 354-60) reveals that Mrs Phoebe Crackenthorpe is probably – at least in part – by Mrs Delarivier Manley).
Published on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays:
No’s 1 – 18; 8 July – 17 August 1709
By Mrs Manley, published by B Bragge.
No’s 19 – 44; 19 August – 17 October 1709 (two issues of each)
One by Thomas Baker (a rival), published by B Bragge.
One by Mrs Manley, published by A Baldwin.
No’s 45 – 51; 19 October – 2 November 1709
By Mrs Manley, published by A Baldwin
No’s 52 – 111 (really 115 due to faulty numeration); 4 November 1709 – 31 March 1710
By “A Society of Ladies”, published by A Baldwin.
“I hope Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq; will not think I invade his Property, by undertaking a Paper of this kind, since Tatling was ever adjudg’d peculiar to our sex”;
“The Variety of our Conversation affords general satisfaction; Books are canvass’d, Removals at Court suggested, Law Cases disputed, the Price of Stocks told, the Beaus and Ladies inform us of new Fashions, and the first long Pocket that was seen in Town received its Reputation from being approv’d of at Mrs Crackenthorpe’s Drawing Room.”
bound with:
The Tory Tatler
No’s 1 – 16. ff 143 – 158. 1709.
Shelfmark: Hope fol 91, item 2
Bound with:
The Tatler
By Isaac Bickerstaffe
No’s 1 – 330. ff 159 – 497. 1709 – 1711.
Shelfmark: Hope fol. 91, item 3
Reviewed in The Isis (Reel 15) V 1 No 12, 28 April 1832 p 192:
“This publication was the first attempt made in England, or in any country, to instruct and amuse learned readers by short papers, appearing at stated intervals, and sold at a cheap rate. The Tatler was the first Penny Magazine; and some of the ablest writers which England has produced did not think it beneath them to contribute to this good work of enlightening a large body of their countrymen, to whom this little paper was devoted.”
It included contributions by Addison, Steele and Swift.
The Ladies Journal
No’s 1 – 22. 1727
Shelfmark: Hope 8º 550
Dublin. Printed by W Wilmot, on the Blind-Key, near Fishamble Street.
(4) + 177 + (10) pp
A Collection of Songs but “also a variety of the most Entertaining Subjects, Beautiful Allegories, and agreeable verses on Several Ocassions”. The volume includes 10 pages of manuscript entries – songs and poems by Waller, and one anonymous poem.
“This Paper will be continued weekly, till a sufficient Number be publish’d, in order to make a neat Pocket volume.”
“as well as for the Instruction and Amusement of the Ladies”
This publication is very good for the letters it contains on women, by women.
The Mirrour
No’s II-V, VII-X, XII, 1719
Shelfmark: Hope fol 72(2)
Printed for W Chetwood at Cato’s-Head in Russel-Court, near the Theatre-Royal; and sold by Tho Warner at the Black Boy in Pater-noster-Row.
No II – Thursday, 12 February, 1719, 2pp
No III – Thursday, 19 February, 1719, 2 pp
No IV– Thursday, 26 February, 1719, 2 pp
No V – Thursday, 5 March, 1719, 2 pp
No VI1 – Thursday, 19 March, 1719, 2 pp
No VII1 – Thursday, 26 March, 1719, 2 pp
No IX – Thursday, 2 April, 1719, 2 pp
No X – Thursday, 9 April, 1719, 2 pp (contains Amelia’s sad story)
No XII – Thursday, 23 April, 1719, 2pp
“Of all the reigning Follies of the Age, there is non so Universal as Affectation in some kind or other: Especially amongst that Sex which is accounted the Weaker; but I must be so far a Champion for the Fair, as to maintain, that the Little Vanities too many of them are guilty of (and which draw a general Reflection upon all) are not Born with ‘em, or any way Incident to their Sex, but meerly acquir’d. First imbib’d by the prejudice of Education, then strengthen’d by the influence of Example, and afterwards completed by a wrong Application of Time and Study….”
This journal examines these follies and suggest remedies. Letters from readers commence in Number IV.
The Parrot.
By Mrs Prattle. 1728.
Shelfmark: Hope fol 72(12)
No 1 - Wednesday 25 September, 1728, 2 pp
No 2- Wednesday 2 October, 1728, 2 pp
No 3 - Wednesday 9 October, 1728, 2 pp
No 4 - Wednesday 16 October, 1728 – 2 pp
“I hope the World will not be so rude to demand a Reason at a Woman’s Hands, why she should assume the Character of an Intelligencer, and set Pen to Paper at this Time of Day, when the number of Journals and News Letters are even cumbersome to shops and coffee houses: But to anticipate Enquiry, I give my Reason (that is) I cannot hold my Tongue; for I must speak and write when the Humour takes me; I have a natural Fondness to hear any thing novel for the Sake of telling it, and have for some time past spent the whole Saturday morning in reading the Weekly Papers which are then brought me.”
“I allot to my self the Work of a Reformer in every Vice and Foible that occurs to my Observation. I shall harp upon no single subject; the villain in love, the Ape in dress, the knave in Politicks, shall come under my lash in their several Turns."
Subjects covered include the Liberty of the Press and Men.
REEL THREE
The Female Spectator
By Eliza Haywood. Vols 1-4, 1744 – 1746.
Shelfmark: Hope 8º 390-3
Vol 1 – (4) + 322 + (12) pp. Books 1 – 6
Vol 2 – (4) + 324 + (8) pp. Books 7 – 12
Vol 3 – (4) + 328 + (12) pp. Books 13 – 18
Vol 4 – (4) + 318 + (10) pp. Books 19 – 24
Printed for T Gardner, at Cowley’s-Head, near St Clements-Church in the Strand.
Dedicated to “Dutchess of Leeds”
“the chief view in Publishing these Monthly Essays, is to rectify some Errors, which, small as they may seem at first, may, if indulged, grow up into greater, till they at last become vices, and make all the Misfortunes of our Lives.”
“reading is universally allowed to be one of the most improving, as well as agreeable amusements.”
This publication claims to be by a lady, not beautiful or young.
“With this experience, added to a genius tolerably extensive, and an education more liberal than is ordinarily allowed to persons of my sex, I flattered myself that it might be in my power to in some measure both useful and entertaining to the public.”
“my business therefore, was to hit this reigning humour in such a manner, as that the gratification it should receive from being acquainted with other people’s affairs, might at the same time teach everyone to regulate their own.”
Assisted by Mira, married to a gentleman a widow of quality, and, a daughter of a wealthy merchant.
REEL FOUR
The Parrot. With a Compendium of the Times
By the authors of ‘The Female Spectator’. (Eliza Haywood)
No’s I-IX. 1746
Shelfmark: Hope 8º 761
London, Printed and published by T Gardner, at Cowley’s-Head, opposite St Clements-Church in the Strand.
230 pp
Written in the form of a letter to the readers, it covers many subjects including victory at Culloden, Panegyric & Satire, Life after Death, Murders and Bankruptcy.
The Lady’s Weekly Magazine
Published under the direction of Mrs Penelope Pry. 1747
Shelfmark: Hope fol 106(154)
One issue, dated 19 February, 1747. (4 pp).
To the ladies of Great Britain:
“This being the first Weekly Paper of the kind that was ever yet attempted, and calculated intirely for the service and Amusement of your sex, permit us, with humble submission to lay it before the Publick under Your Patronage:”
A major part of the first issue is:
The Present Political History of the World: For the Entertainment of the Fair Sex
Dialogue I, by Lady Manley, Miss Bloom, and Mrs Pry.
The Midwife. Or, Old Woman’s Magazine.
Vols I-III. 1751-1753.
Shelfmark: Hope 8º 741
Volume 1 was printed for Mary Midnight and sold by T Carnan in St Paul’s Church Yard. Volumes II and III, printed for Thomas Carnan, at J Newbery’s, the Bible and Sun, in St Paul’s Church-yard. The author as been identified as Christopher Smart.
“Containing all the Wit and all the Humour and all the Learning and all the Judgement, that has ever been, or ever will be inserted in all the other magazines or the Grand Magazine of Magazines, or any other Book whatsoever, so that those who buy this book will need no other. Published pursuant to several Acts of Parliament, and by permission of their most Christian and most Catholic Majesties, the Great Mogul and the States General. Embellished with CUTS according to Custom."
Vol I – 285 pp; Vol 2 – 282 pp; Vol 3 – 151 pp. Each volume indexed at end. A collection of essays, poems, reviews, travel writings and reader’s letters.
To volume III is added:
An Index to Mankind or MAXIMS – selected from The Wits of all Nations. For the Benefit of the Present Age and of Posterity. By MRS MARY MIDNIGHT Author of the Midwife; or Old Woman’s Magazine. Intermixed with some Curious Reflections by that Lady and a Preface by her good Friend the late Mr Pope. Printed in London by T Carnan at Mr Newberry’s. The Bible and Sun, in St Paul’s Church-yard, 1751.
REEL 5
The Ladies Library
Written by a Lady. 6th edition. 1751
Shelfmark: Hope 8º 551-3
Published by Sir Richard Steele. Printed by J & R Tonson & S Draper in the Strand. (First published in 1714, an anthology compiled by George Berkeley – the only female author identified is Mary Astill.)
Vol 1 – (12) + 344 + (18) pp
Vol 2 – (16) + 271 + (18) pp
Vol 3 – (20) + 344 + (24) pp
The volumes claim to offer:
“general Rules for Conduct in all the Circumstances of the Life of Woman.” (Steele).
“I am only her Gentleman – Usher, and if I can be so happy as to lead the Fair into their Closets, to the Perusal of this useful as well as delightful Entertainment, I shall be in as high Joy, as ever I observed any young Man in leading out from a Play or an Opera.” (Steele).
“…a work, which, if carefully perused, will improve the Readers, as Daughters, Wives, Mothers and Widows.”
Subjects covered in the first of the three volumes are Employment, Wit and Delicacy, Recreations, Dress, Chastity, Modesty, Meekness, Charity, Envy, Detraction, Censure, and Reproof, Ignorance, Pride.
“Musing one Day in this Tract or Thought, I turned over some Books of French and English, written by the most polite Writers of the Age, and began to consider what Account they gave of our Composure, different from that of the other sex. But indeed, when I dipped into those Writings, were it possible to conceive otherwise, I could not have believed, from their general and undistinguish’d Aspersions, that many of these Men had any such Relations as Mothers, Wives, or Sisters.”
The author aims to provide a guide to conduct based on the teachings of the Divines.
Volume 2 discusses The Daughter, The Wife, The Mother, The Widow, and The Mistress and Volume 3 contains pieces covering Religion, Prayer, Fasting, Repentance, The Sacrament, Zeal, Perfection, and Scruples.
Each of the three volumes contains an Index.
REEL SIX
The Student, or the Oxford Monthly Miscellany
Vol I, No’s I-IX, 1750.
Shelfmark: Hope 8º 956, 957
Oxford. Printed for J Newbery in St Paul’s Church-yard, London; and J Barrett in Oxford.
400 + (8) pp with indexes to prose and poetry at the end.
“to promote learning in general.”
This publication includes poems and essays on many subjects, including:
Arabick Language; On Beauty; Introduction to a new system of castle building; On a Clergyman’s family – giving the history of each member; Letters in defence of religion; John Locke – letters relating to his expulsion; Wife, an advertisement for one.
Continues as
The Student, or, the Oxford and Cambridge Monthly Miscellany
Vol II, No’s I-X, 1751.
(includes essays by Female Student and Old Maids).
400 + (8) pp with index at end.
Have At You All; or, the Drury Lane Journal
By Madame Roxana Termagant. No’s I-XIII, 1752.
Shelfmark: Hope 8º 317
286 pp. First number dated 16 January, 1752, and last dated 9 April, 1752.
London. Printed and sold at the Publick Register Office in King Street, Covent Garden, where letters to the authoress are taken in. Addressed to Sir Alexander Drawiansir, Author of the Covent Garden Journal
A weekly journal providing Domestic News, Foreign News, Advertisements, Letters, and Reviews.
REEL SEVEN
The Lady’s Curiosity; or, Weekly Apollo
By Nestor Druid, Gent. No’s I-XIII, 1752.
Shelfmark: Hope 8º 1067
London. Printed by C Sympson, at the Bible, in Chancery-Lane, Fleet-Street.
286 pp. With extensive engravings at the end of the volume.
No I contains essays on:
I - The Unhappiness of Forced Marriages, and the miserable consequences of being overruled by Persuasion, Interest, the Influence or Authority of Friends, to marry contrary to inclination, and the Affections already settled; exemplified in a true Narrative of the unhappy Differences between a certain Baronet and his Lady.
II – The Unreasonableness of confining courtship to the Men only, set forth in a petition of several single women, remonstrating against this barbarous custom.
Also fables, (such as the Lady and the Wasp, and the Solitary Lover), poetry, songs, articles (on The Errors of Modern Education, the Deadly Vapours, and a surprising Desire of Death), and love letters.
Please note that this volume has been bound out of sequence. The sequence as bound is:
P 1-64; pp 82-184; pp 210-238; pp 256-270; pp 286-292 (leaving no XIX incomplete); pp 185-192; pp 301-308; pp 194-208; pp 279-286; followed by a series of illustrated fables (I-VII; XIX-XVIII; XVII; XVI; XV; XIV; XIII; XII; XI; X; XX-XXIV; XXVI-XXVIII; XXXI-XXXII; XXXV-XL); and finally some illustrated sheet music. (Issues V, XVI and XVIII appear to be missing).
The Spring – Garden Journal
By Miss Priscilla Termagent (a near relation of the late Mrs Roxana), No’s I-IV, 1752
Shelfmark: Hope 8º 949
London. Printed and sold at Mr Meyers’ Library in May’s-Buildings, St Martin’s Lane; where letters to the Authoress are taken in.
pp 1-76
Followed by:
The New Female Spectator
No III, 1752, pp 77-92
A direct continuation of The Spring-Garden Journal featuring the same mixture of essays, poems and reviews.
The Inspector
No’s 1-152, 1753
Shelfmark: Hope 8º 527-8
Vol I – (vi) + 338 + (xii) pp. No’s 1-78. Index at end.
Vol II – (iv) + 321 + (vi) pp. No’s 79-152. Index at end.
A bound volume containing the original numbers. The Advertisement notes that these began to appear in March 1751, in the London Daily Advertiser and continued without intermission. Dr John Hill was the solitary author. It deals with a variety of subjects, including reflections on women. Whilst it is not a women’s journal, it is useful for comparative purposes and to see how male essayists addressed their readers. Relevant numbers include:
No 2 deals with the story of Thyrsis and Saccharissa – “He admired her as a woman of sprightliness and gaiety, a daughter of the muses, and the mistress of forty thousand pounds.”
No 8 deals with:
“A late article of news, the story of a woman’s insisting on the utmost severity of the law, against a trivial offence in her lover; committing to a prison the man who had raised her from indigence, supported her in affluence, and even ruined his fortune in her service;”
No 10 deals with virtues, including that of being a wife.
No 17 is a letter to the Inspector from a Woman.
Other numbers deal with Billets-doux; the Distress of a Lady; Duels; the behaviour of Gentlemen; the instability of the Heart of man; Marriage; Modesty; Rural Rambles; a Toad in the belly of a young woman; Wit; and Women.
The second volume continues this with numbers on Adonis, the favourite of Venus; Beauty; Miss Bellamy, the player; Cleora’s letter to the Inspectoress; Courtship; Fan – the management of it necessary to the coquette; the Inspectoress; Ladies advised to court the man; Love; Marriage; Parents; a Prostitute; Reptiles discovered in Frozen Vegetables; Sylvia’s story; and Venus compared to Fanny Murray.
REEL EIGHT
The Matrimonial Preceptor. A Collection of Examples and Precepts relating to the Married State from the most celebrated writers, ancient and modern.
No’s 1-65, 1755.
Shelfmark: Hope 8º 611
London. Printed for J Payne, at Pope’s Head in Pater-Noster Row.
315 pp
Subjects covered include:
Personal beauty produced by moral sentiment; the causes of disagreement in marriage; Courtship, the pleasantest part of a man’s life; Jealousy described; On female gamesters; On the tyranny of husbands; On marriage and divorce; On the brutality of husbands; The duties of a good wife.
The Old Maid
By Mary Singleton, Spinster. No’s I-XXXVII, 1755-1756
Shelfmark: Hope fol 64
London. Printed for A Millar, in the Strand, and sold by S Bladon, in Pater Noster Row. Issued weekly.
222 pp
Includes letters written by subscribers and replies, poems and reviews.
The Wife
By Mira, one of the Authors of ‘The Female Spectator’, and ‘Epistles for Ladies. (Eliza Haywood). 1756
Shelfmark: Hope 8º 1085
Printed for T Gardner, at Cowley’s Head facing St Clements Church in the Strand.
(v) + vi + 282 pp.
On the institution of marriage and proper behaviour. In three books.
Book I
I – Concerning the first weeks after Marriage, vulgarly call’d the honey-moon
II – Difference of Opinion in matters of Religion
III – Difference of Opinion in affairs of Government
IV – Dress
V – Neatness in genral
VI – Behaviour to the Husband’s kindred in particular circumstances
VII – The danger of living in the same house with any Relation of the Husband’s
VIII – Servants
IX – Talkativeness and Taciturnity
X – Giving and receiving Visits
XI – Places of publick Entertainment
XII – Economy, and the means by which that virtue may be rendered and doubly pleasing to a Husband
XIII – The great advantages of Sincerity, both to ourselves and others.
Books II and III continue in the same vein with sections on Rambles to Bath, Tunbridge, Scarborough Spaw (sic), and other places of public resort; Coquetry; Prudery; Secrecy; Temperance and Sobriety; On being over-fond of Animals; Gaming; Sloth; Sleeping in different Beds; Husband’s Falshood; Separation and other topics.
The Young Lady
By Euphrosyne. No’s I-VII, 1756.
Shelfmark: Hope 4º 78
Issued every Tuesday, starting 6 January, 1756. It contains brief views on all manner of subjects:
Abraham Cowley, people worthy of praise, Dryden, Addison, virtues, etc.
42 pp
REEL NINE
The Invisible Spy
By Explorabilis (Eliza Haywood). 2 vols, 1759.
Shelfmark: Hope 8º 535
London. Printed for T Gardner, at Cowley’s Head facing St Clement’s Church in the Strand.
Vol I, pp 1-292. Books I-IV
Vol II, pp 1-291. Books V-VIII
Contains “some premises very necessary to be observed by every reader”. The editor of this journal takes up the role of “an invisible spy” – much like a modern fly-on-the-wall camera – enabling conversations to be eaves-dropped and scenes to be witnessed without the participants realising. This leads to numerous revelations, for instance:
“Shows, that the remissmess of care in the bringing up of children, can scarce fail of being attended with very bad consequences; yet, that an over exact circumspection in minute things, may prove equally pernicious to their future welfare”.
(Book I, Chap V)
“The author, by the help of his Invisibility, has discover’d such a contrast in the behaviour of two married couples of distinction, as he thinks would be the utmost injustice to the public to conceal”.
(Book II, Chap I)
“In which the consequences of Cleara’s elopement are fully shown, and an end put to that suspense which the former pages may have excited in the mind of every interested and curious reader.”
(Book III, Chap III)
Each adventure is related through narrative, letters and dialogue.
The Friend: or, Essays Instructive and Entertaining for Youth of Both Sexes; on the Most Important Subjects: Exemplified with Stories from Real Life. 1774.
Shelfmark: Hope 8º 418, item 1
London. Printed for R Snagg, no 29, Pater-noster Row.
(vi) + 172 pp
A moral guidebook for both sexes with brief essays on topics such as “Friendship”, “Self-knowledge”, “Pity”, “Pride and Luxury”, “Swearing”, “Education” etc. Of particular interest are the final two items – “Happiness incompatible with a State of Celibacy” and “Woman the chief Source of human Happiness”.
Followed by
An Essay on Laughter, wherein are displayed, its natural and moral causes, with the arts of Exciting it
1769. Shelfmark: Hope 8º 418, item 2
London. Printed for T Davies in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden, and L Davis near Gray’s-Inn, Holborn.
(iii) – xii + 140 pp
This purports to be translated from the French. It is addressed to Madame ****
“Your boundless passion for all the refined departments of human knowledge, as well as a superior taste for the polite arts, have always influenced you to enquire into the cause of that pleasure which you derive from them.”
It continues as a philosophical enquiry into the cause of laughing, quoting contemporary French intellects – such as Des-Touches, Fontenelle and Montesquieu, and classical authors.
The Female Guardian. Designed to correct some of the foibles incident to Girls and supply them with innocent amusement for their hours of leisure
By a Lady. 2nd edition. No’s I-XXXIII, 1787. Shelfmark: Hope 8º 381
London. Printed and sold by John Marshall and Co at No 4 Aldermery Church Yard, in Bow-Lane.
viii + 130 + (2) pp
Contains Family Anecdotes; Improving Exercises; Sensibility; Parental Watchfulness; Erroneous Management; Thoughtless Cruelty; The Negligent Mother; The Scourge; Early Rising; Heedlessness.
REEL TEN
The Pharos: A collection Periodical Essays
By the author of ‘Constance’ (has been attributed to Eliza Kirkham Mathews, known as Mrs Charles Mathews, but this is not certain). 2 vols, 1786-1787.
Shelfmark: Hope 8º 769-770
London. Printed for T Hookham, New Bond Street
Vol I, No’s I – XXV, pp 1-280
Vol II, No’s XXXVI – L, pp 1-295
The writer takes on the mantle of “a censor of public manners”, acting as a lighthouse to warn those approaching danger. Volume I contains:
1 Introduction
2 Acceptance of correspondence
3 Advertisement of a singular action
4 On the permanency of opinion and the characters of Theophrastus
5 Letters from correspondents
6 Mr Steady’s Three Sons
7 On modish asservation
8 On condolence
9 On avarice
10 The misery of a disgraceful marriage – Letters from Harriet ****** and her husband
11 Men happier under the dispensation of Providence than by their own choice. The story of Segued and Ali.
12 The story of Segued and Ali continued
13 Letters from David Meek and A B on the improper employment of footmen
14 Mental cultivation necessary in sickness and solitude. Letter from M T
15 The folly of displaying the importance of others: a visit to Eliza
16 Unenviable greatness: Lady ******’s story of her marriage
17 Lady ******’s story concluded
18 On the magnifying powers of description and detail
19 Penelope’s cautious aunt
20 On the views with which young females are now educated
21 Letters from M P and Patient Meggot on matrimonial grievances
22 On the eager pursuit of pleasure
23 Modern emendations of the church service
24 On decorum in the female character
25 The effects of sudden wealth: a visit to Sempronius
Volume 2 contains:
26 Arabella Single’s history
27 On the politeness of the present age
28 Mr Blazon’s pedigree mania
29 Thoughts on shewing kindness to the vicious
30 Ben Listless’s search for a lodging
31 The search concluded
32 On genius
33 Characters in the Serpent family
34 Letters on female dress, and on Not at home
35 Father account of the Serpent family
36 On the manner of celebrating the Sabbath
37 Fashionably Sensibility
38 Instance of fatal imposition: the story of Aurelia
39 On the various manners of attention
40 Letters on inaccuracy in painting inscriptions and in the use of terms
41 Beacons
42 The inconviences of a mauvaise honte: complaint of Timidisssima
43 A scholar rivalled by a Beau
44 The danger of educating highly young women who have no certain provision
45 Character of a wit, and of a retired citizen
46 On fashion
47 Men-artificers employed about women
48 The story of Eugenio and Prudentia
49 On retirement
50 On the force of habit – Conclusion
The Female Mentor: or, select conversations
3 vols, 1793. Shelfmark: Hope 8º 382-4
London. Printed for T Caddell, in the Strand.
“If the following conversations should afford you some amusement, and if you should think them calculated to lead the youthful and unbiased mind in the ways of virtue, I shall feel highly gratified.” Honoria.
Vol I, Conversations 1-15., pp 1 – 235
Vol II, Conversations 16-29, pp 1 – 242
Vol III, Conversations 30-43, pp 1 – 232
The Conversations are as follows:
v1.
1 On the Influence of Education. p 1
2 Sketch of the Life of Fenelon. p 20
3 Anger. p 55
4 Oracle of Delphos. p 65
5 The Old Man and his Dog Trim. p 78
6 Instances of Benevolence. p 92
7 (continued) p 102
8 On Novels. p 110
9 On the Queen Consorts of England. – Bertha, Philippa of Hainault, Eleanor of Castile. p 120
10 On Learned Ladies. p 131
11 Maxims of Fenelon on Female Education. p 142
12 Margaret of Anjou, Consort of Henry the Sixth. p 156
13 On Novelty – Lake of Zirnitz. p 173
14 Lady Elizabeth Gray. p 183
15 On the Character of Imogen. p 212
v2.
16 Jacqueline of Hainault. p 1
17 Madame de Sevigné. p21
18 Catherine of Arragon, Queen Consort of Henry the Eighth. p 33
19 On Modesty. p 50
20 On the study of Nature. p 58
21 Anne Bolen, Queen Consort of Henry the Eighth. p 72
22 On Dancing. p 97
23 Catharine Parr. p 111
24 On Contentment. p 119
25 Maria Beatrice d’Este, Consort of James the Second. p 129
26 On Music. p 149
27 Queen Mary, Consort of William the Third. p 185
28 On Marriage. p 220
29 On Dissipation. p 227
v3.
30 Annals of the Poor. p 1
31 On the Fear of Death. p 9
32 On Vanity. p 31
33 On Politeness. p 43
34 On Covetousness and Profussion. p 67
35 On the Rein-Deer. p 80
36 On Genius and Industry. p 96
37 On Humane Institutions. p 111
38 On Taste. pp 127
39 On Female Friendship. p 146
40 On Maternal Affection. p 160
41 On Funeral Rites. p 181
42 On Simplicity. p 193
43 Death of Amanda. p 224
REEL ELEVEN
The Lady’s Miscellany. Or, Pleasing Essays, Poems, Stories and Examples for the Instruction and Entertainment of the Female Sex in General, in every station of life
By George Wright, Esq, author of the Rural Christian, Pleasing - Melancholy, etc.
1793 Shelfmark: Hope 8º 1092
London. Printed for Chapman and Co. No 161 Fleet Street.
A compendium selected from fugitive publications in prose and verse, intended to both instruct and amuse. The contents are too lengthy to list, but they include:
On the studies most ornamental to the Fair Sex. p 1
On the Danger of Female Beauty. p 4
On the Education of a Tradesman’s Daughter. p 6
On the Happiness of the Marriage State. p 9
Memoirs of the Life and Death of Amanda. p 20
On Female Fashion. p 25
On Scandal: a Poem. p 47
Flora’s Lessons to Young Ladies. p 55
Lady Jane Grey’s Letter to her Sister, written the Night before her Execution. p 69
Reflections on Charity. p 90
Female Patriotism. p 91
A Father’s Advice to his Daughter. p 105
Remarks on Female Chastity. p 147
On the Causes of Matrimonial Differences. p 160
A Letter from a Lady in the Country, to a Friend in Town. p 170
Popish folly display’d. By a Lady. p 181
On Gaiety and Melancholy. p 198
Patterns for the Great of both Sexes. p 209
On a Library in a Summer-house. p 220
Lines written in a Grotto. p 235
Epitaph on a young married Lady. p 238
Epitaph on a young Lady, aged 18. p 240
The Parlour Window, containing Original Essays, Poetry, and part of an Instructive Tale
(By Mrs Eustace and Her sister). No’s 1-5.
1795. Shelfmark: Hope 8º 760
Dublin. Printed for the Editors by J Whitworth, no 14 Exchange Street.
iv + 176 pp
“If to amuse a vacant hour,
And lounge the time away,
When waiting, should a sudden show’r,
Have caused you some delay;
Or if your party makes you wait,
When you are ready first,
Or that your servants stay to prate,
(A thing they often durst)
Or let the cause be what it will,
That keeps you at this place,
Take up this book, and with it fill,
Of time that empty space,
Its name will tell you where it lies,
‘Tis – PARLOUR WINDOW hite;
and tho’ a guide of humble guise’
‘Tmay chance to lead you right.”
(The title pays mock reference to Montaigne who dreaded that his work should become “A Book for a Parlour Window” – “his dread is this Author’s ambition”).
The journal includes a number of romances and gives a list of subscribers.
The Parental Monitor
By Mrs Bonhote, author of Olivia, etc, 3rd edition. 4 vols.
1796 Shelfmark: Hope 8º 111-114
London. Printed for William Lane, at the Minerva Press, Leadenhall Street.
Vol 1 – 214 pp; Vol 2 – 214 pp; Vol 3 – 227 pp; Vol 4 – 236 pp
It contains:
Essays on various subjects (eg The Love of Pleasure and The Importance of Time).
Fables.
Instruction and moral manual from mother to her children.
An account of a trip to Brighton.
An Excursion to a bathing place.
The Masonic Mirror
(Original essay from The Lady’s Magazine),
1797 Shelfmark: Hope 8º 610
Edinburgh. Printed for and sold by Alexander Kincaid; a member of St David’s Lodge, Edinburgh and by Alexander Lawrie, Bookseller, Parliament Square.
iv + 32 pp
A picture of one of the chief patriarchial organisations, its business and morals.
“Free-Masonry, from the stability, and the excellent principles it has held forth and exhibited to the world, justly claims the countenance and approbation of every good man.
The universality of the Institution, cannot be considered as a matter of surprise, seeing that the virtues, whether moral or social, which it enjoins, are intimately connected with the happiness of human society.”
REEL TWELVE
The Lady’s Monthly Museum, or Polite Repository of Amusement and Instruction: Being an assemblage of whatever can tend to please the fancy, interest the Mind, or exalt the Character of the British Fair
By a Society of Ladies. Vols 1 & 2.
1798 – 1799 Shelfmark: Hope 8º 555-6
(including The Old Woman No’s I-XII).
London. Published by Vernor and Hood.
Vol 1. pp 1 – 498 + Index July 1798 – December 1798
Vol 2. pp 1 – 504 + Index January 1799 – June 1799
The Old Woman is an essay series within the volume – answering readers’ problems, appearing as follows:
No I – Vol I, p 25
No II – Vol I, p 93
No III – Vol I, p 185
No IV – Vol I, p 288
No V – Vol I, p 353
No VI – Vol I, p 437
No VII – Vol II, p 25
No VIII – Vol II, p 129
No IX – Vol II, p 209
No X – Vol II, p 290
No XI – Vol II, p 373
No XII – Vol II, p 463
A Literary and Educational Journal for women which claimed that “the acquisition of languages, simple mathematics, astronomy, natural and experimental philosophy, with history and criticism may be cultured by the sex with propriety and advantage.”
Volume I includes Reviews of works by Burke, Edgeworth, Johnson & others; Poetry; Essays; Romans/Gothic Tales; Review of Female Literature and an article on Hannah More amongst other items.
Volume 2 includes more reviews, and articles on Rousseau, the Discovery of America and Mrs Inchbold amongst other items.
The Lady’s Monthly Museum also contains notes on fashion, fashion plates, letters to the editor, notes on theatricals and accounts of “Celebrated British Ladies” (inspirational role models).
REEL THIRTEEN
The Lady’s Monthly Museum, or Polite Repository of Amusement and Instruction: Being an assemblage of whatever can tend to please the fancy, interest the Mind, or exalt the Character of the British Fair.
By a Society of Ladies. Vols 3 & 4. 1799 – 1800
(including The Old Woman No’s XIII=XXIV and The Inspector No’s I-II)
Shelfmark: Hope 8º 557-8
London. Published by Vernor and Hood.
Vol 3. pp 1 – 502 + Index July 1799 – December 1799
Vol 4. pp 1 – 490 + Index January 1800 – June 1800
The Old Woman continues within the journal as follows:
No XIII – Vol III, p 6
No XIV – Vol III, p 89
No XV – Vol III, p 173
No XVI – Vol III, p 301
No XVII – Vol III, p 355
No XVIII – Vol III, p 426
No XIX – Vol IV, p 6
No XX – Vol IV, p 87
No XXI – Vol IV, p 173
No XXII – Vol IV, p 242
No XXIII – Vol IV, p 326
No XXIV – Vol IV, p 461
The Inspector is another essay series within the journal.
No I – Vol IV, p 170
No II – Vol IV, p 245
Volumes 3 & 4 include more poetry, reviews, essays and theatricals, as well as articles on Seduction, Celibacy, Ghosts and Grottos. The Celebrated British Ladies series continues and the Review of Female Literature looks at the value of commonplace books and the reception of popular romances and travel writing. Anecdotes include The Chaste Nun: An Eastern Tale.
REEL FOURTEEN
Essays on the Art of Being Happy, Addressed to a Young Mother
By Eugenia de Acton, author of ‘Microcosm’, ‘A tale without a title’, etc. (Alethia Lewis). 2 vols, 1803. Shelfmark: Hope 8º 314
London. Printed at the Minerva Press, for Lane, Newman & Co, Leadenhall-Street.
Vol I – xvi + 272 pp
Vol II – iv + 276 pp
Essays including “Expectation too highly raised, one great Cause of Infelicity”, “On conjugal Happiness”, “Contrasted Female Education”, “On the danger of not being explicit”, “The Fear of Death impressed on youthful minds”, “On novels”, “On the still, small voice”, “Marriage, and relative duties”, “Severity to children seldom requisite”.
Essays and Letters on important and interesting subjects
By Juliana Yonge, author of ‘A Short Commentary on the Bible’, ‘On the Importance of the Baptismal Vow’. 2 vols, 2nd edition. 1806 (first appeard 1783)
Shelfmark: Hope 8º 1106
London. Printed for E Williams, Strand, Bookseller to the Duke and Duchess of York, and Successor to the Late Mr Blam and sold by all Booksellers.
219 pp
Moral essays and letter.
The Scrinium
By Rebecca Edridge. Vol 1. 1822.
Shelfmark: Hope 8º 329
London. Printed for G & W B Whittaker, Ave-Maria-Lane
Vol I – vii + 355 pp
Short essays on various subjects. Volume I includes:
The Letter; Depravity; The Billet-Doux; The Old Maid; Sensibility; The Haunted Castle; The Bed of Death; Observations on Education
REEL FIFTEEN
The Scrinium
By Rebecca Edridge. Vol II. 1822.
Shelfmark: Hope 8º 330
London. Printed for G & W B Whittaker, Ave-Maria-Lane.
Short essays on various subjects. Volume II includes:
Man and Wife; Mothering Sunday; The Elopement; Lines for the Tomb of a Goldfinch; Bons Mots; Country Wit.
“A book should stand like a blazing beacon to warn the world of danger; and when, like a faithless phantom, it glitters to betray, the hue and cry of all honest men should detect its fallacy.”
The Isis, A London Weekly Publication
Edited by a Lady. Vol I No 1 – Vol I No 39. 1832.
Shelfmark: Hope 8º 37
London. Printed and Published by David France, 1 Bouverie-Street, Fleet-Street.
Dedicated “To the Young Women of England for Generations to Come, or until Superstition is extract.”
This journal attacks religious and political issues in a way unmatched by any of the other journals in this collection (although it is interesting to compare this with The Female Tatler on Reel 2). It preaches materialism, co-operation, and disestablishmentarianism. For instance, it claims, “Church-going, as a habit, is a waste of time, and a waste of time is a sin”.
It fights for the release of Rev Robert Taylor, imprisoned for blasphemy, and Richard Carlile. Carlile’s articles appear regularly in the journal as it progresses. The journal also argues vehemently for a re-assessment of the news of Thomas Paine, and publishes texts of the lectures of Frances Wright, the outspoken American activist. However, the main part of the journal are the addresses of the Editoress – “the Lady of the Rotunda” on religion and politics. Carlile claims of the writer: “you are destined to be the greatest moral teacher of mankind that has yet come on earth; superior to Socrates; superior to Confucius” (p 202). There are also articles on the rural poor and on phytozoology, and a series of letters to Adelaide, Queen of England, and the Government.
The journal is formidably indexed in the opening pages of the volume.
It runs from Vol I No I (Saturday 11 February, 1832) to Vol I No 39 (Saturday 15 December, 1832). xx + 624 pp.
It argues that:
Women, should enjoy the liberty of speech everywhere: “of politics! politics from a woman! some will exclaim YES, I will set before my sex the example of asserting an equality for them with their present lords and masters, and strive to teach all, yes, all, that the undue submission, which constitutes slavery, is honourable to none….”
REEL SIXTEEN
Reels 16 and 17 contain two large miscellaneous volumes offering sample issues of over 180 journals published in the period 1807-1837. This was a period which witnessed the explosion of the popular press in Britain – with new journals springing up daily, targetted at particular segments of the market.
The reasons that these miscellaneous volumes have been included are threefold.
Firstly, they contain a number of journals of direct relevance to women. Particularly:
Reel 16, item 15 The Briton’s Friend: or, Moral and Oeconomical Register (detailing women’s industrial employment in 1807)
Reel 16, items 63 & 64 The Isis: A London Weekly Publication. Edited by the Lady of the Rotunda
Reel 16, item 82 The Maids, Wives, and Widow’s Penny Magazine, and Gazette of Fashion (the coming of domestic economy)
Reel 17, item 47 The Regenerator, or Guide to Happiness
Secondly, they contain a large number of journals aimed at the family as a whole; or relating to domestic/general issues. Over 90 titles fall into this category, including:
Reel 17, item 18 The Cabinet of Life, Wit and Humour (Liverpool)
Reel 17, item 22 The Christian Moralist
Reel 17, item 42 The Family Gazette; and Literary & Philanthropic Journal
Reel 17, item 57 The True Half-Penny Magazine, of a Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
Reel 18, item 1 The National Magazine
Reel 18, item 19 The Phrenologist
Reel 18, item 47 The Regenerator, or Guide to Happiness
Reel 18, item 68 The Truth. A Weekly Radical, Christian, and Family Newspaper
Reel 18, item 79 The Weekly Miscellany; or New National Magazine of Instruction and Amusement
Thirdly, they provide a good sample of the whole range of journals produced in this period, enabling the women’s journals to be seen in context. It is interesting, for instance, to compare The Isis (Reel 15, produced by the Lady of the Rotunda) with mainstream political/satirical journals such as The Black Dwarf (Reel 17, item 9), Bronterre’s National Reformer (Reel 17, item 16) Carpenter’s Political Letters (Reel 18, items 22-36) and The Rump Chronicle (Reel 18, item 50). Also, it is interesting to contrast the moral advice given to women with general exhortations for a better world from figures such as John Wesley (in The Evangelical Penny Magazine, and Bible Illustrator, Reel 17, item 41), Robert Own (The Crisis; or the change from Error and Misery. to Truth and Happiness, Reel 17, item 31) and others. (The New Moral World, and Official Gazette of the National Association of Industry, Humanity and Knowledge, Reel 18, item 3).
Here follows a complete list of the titles:
A Miscellaneous Volume containing short runs of 97 magazines published in the period, 1807-1837.
Shelfmark: Hope 4º A-M
Item 1 The Advocate, or, Artizans’ and Labourers’ Friend
No 1, 16 February 1833, 8 pp
Item 2 Eighth Report of the American Temperance Society (Preston)
nd, 8 pp
Item 3 The Annals of Crime, and New Newgate Calender
No 1, 24 August 1833, 8 pp
Item 4 The Antiquarian
No 1, 26 May 1832, 8 pp
Item 5 The Anti-Unionist; A Weekly Magazine (Dublin)
No 9, 28 March 1818, 16 pp
No 14, 2 May 1818, 16 pp
Item 6 The Argus
No 1, 6 October 1832, 8 pp
Item 7 The Bazar, or Literary and Scientific Repository (Birmingham)
No 1, Vol 1, 26 June 1823, 8pp
Item 8 The Benefit Societies’ Magazine, and Mechanics’ and Labourers’ Adviser
No 1, 1 November 1834, 16 pp
Item 9 The Black Dwarf
No 1, 29 January 1817, 8 pp
No 15, Vol II, 15 April 1818, 8pp
Extra, 23 March 1818
containing the last public legacy of Major Cartwright to the Reformers
No 33, 10 September 1817, 8 pp
No 35, 24 September 1817, 8 pp
Item 10 The Bristol Job Nott; or Labouring Mans Friend (Bristol)
No I, 15 December 1831
riot in Bristol, 4 pp
No V, 12 January 1832, 4 pp
Item 11 The Bristol Loyalist (Bristol)
No 1, 7 December 1836, 8 pp
No 7, 1 February 1837, 4 pp
Item 11* The Bristol Policeman: To show Vice her own Feature (Bristol)
No 1, 6 August 1836, 8 pp
Vol II, No 27, 4 February 1837, 8 pp
Item 12 The Bristolia (Bristol)
No 1, 31 October 1829, 4 pp
Item 13 The British Freeholder
No 1, 5 February 1820, 16 pp
Item 14 The British Mirror (Kelso)
No 1, 4 April 1836, 8 pp
Item 15 The Briton’s Friend: or Moral, and Oeconomical Register
No 1, 5 September 1807, 12 pp
Gives a list of Women’s Industrial Employment
No 2, 12 September 1807, 12 pp
Advice to a daughter
No 3, 19 September 1807, 12 pp
Addressed to labouring classes and farm folk
No 4, 26 September 1807, 12 pp
Item 16 Bronterre’s National Reformer, in Government, Law, Property, Religion and Morals
(Ed) James Bronterre O’Brien
No 1, Vol 1, 7 January 1837, 8 pp
Item 17 The Cab
No 1, 3 March 1832
Satirical, with splendid woodcuts, 4 pp
No 5, 31 March 1832, 8 pp
Item 18 The Cabinet of Life, Wit and Humour (Liverpool)
Vol 1, No 1, 12 September 1829, 8pp
Vol 1, No 8, 31 October 1829, 8 pp
Item 19 Caledonian; or Scottish Literary and Political Investigator
No 1, 2 January 1819, 10 pp
Item 20 Captain Rock in London, or, The Chieftan’s Weekly Gazette
No 1, 5 March 1825, 8 pp
No 14, 4 June 1825, 8 pp
No 52, 25 February 1826, 8 pp
No 56, 25 March 1826, 8 pp
Item 21 The Champion
No 452, 2 September 1821, 16 pp
Item 22 The Christian Moralist
No 1, 1 January 1820, 16 pp
Item 23 The Christian’s Penny Magazine
No 13, 1 September 1832, 8 pp
Item 24 Church and State
No 1, 16 January 1836, 16 pp
Item 25 Church Examiner and Ecclesiastical Record
No 1, Vol 1, 19 May 1832, 4 pp
Item 26 The Comet; or Falvey’s Liverpool Observer (Liverpool)
No 2, 11 August 1832, 8 pp
Item 27 The Comet or Falvey’s Liverpool Observer (Liverpool)
No 6, 8 September 1832, 8 pp
Item 28 The Companion to the Newspaper
No 1, 1 March 1833, 16 pp
Item 29 The Commentator
No 1, 14 February 1818, 8 pp
Item 30 The Conductor (Ed) Thomas Macconnell
No 1, 17 September 1836, 4 pp
Item 31 The Crisis: or the change from Error and Misery, to Truth and Happiness
(Ed) Robert Owen
No 1, Vol 1, 14 April 1832, 4 pp
Item 32* The Critical Figaro of Paris and London…
No 1, 21 January 1832, 8 pp
Item 32 The Curious Man: A Daily Paper
No I, 8 April 1822, 4 pp
No XII, 20 April 1822, 4 pp
Item 33 The Democratic Recorder, and Reformers’ Guide
No 1, 2 October 1819, 8 pp
Item 34 The Devil in London
No 1, 29 February 1832, 4 pp
No 13, 26 May 1832, 4 pp
No 15, 9 June 1832 (2 editions) 8 pp
A Satirical Journal with outstanding woodcuts
Item 35 The Devil’s Walk! Edited by a Member of Parliament
No 1, 17 February 1832, 4 pp
Item 36 T Dibdin’s Penny Trumpet
No 1, 20 October 1832, 4 pp
Item 37 The Dublin Halfpenny Journal (Dublin)
Part 1 , 3 November 1832-24 November 1832, 16 pp
Item 38 The Dublin Literary Gazette… (Dublin)
No 6, 6 February 1830, 16 pp
Item 39 The Dublin Penny Journal (Dublin)
No 12, Vol 1, 15 September 1832, 8 pp
Item 40 The Dublin Weekly Journal (Dublin)
No 1, Vol 1, 3 November 1832, 8 pp
Item 41 The Evangelical Penny Magazine, and Bible Illustrator (Ed) John Wesley
No 1, 13 October 1832, 8 pp
Item 42 The Family Gazette; and Literary and Philanthropic Journal
No I, 6 October 1821, 16 pp
No XXXV, 1 June 1822, 8 pp
Item 43 The Fashionable Magazine (Limerick)
No 1, Vol 1, 16 November 1833, 4 pp
Item 44 Figaro in London
No 1, 10 December 1831
Satirical, 4 pp
No 55, 22 December 1832, 4 pp
Item 45 The New Figaro
No 1, 17 March 1832, 4 pp
Item 46 To the Electors of the Borough of Finsbury
November 1834, 4 pp
Item 47 To the Electors of the Borough of Finsbury
December 1834, 4 pp
Item 48 The Fool’s-Cap
No 1, 13 October ----, 4 pp
Item 49 The Gallant
No 1, 10 May 1832, 8 pp
Item 50 The Gauntlet
No 1, 10 February 1833, 16 pp
Item 51 The Georgium Sidus and Patriotic Censor (Tralee)
(Vol 1, No 1), 9 October 1819, 8 pp
Vol 1, No 6, 18 December 1819, 8 pp
Item 52 Giovanni in London….
Satirical
Vol 1, No 1, 18 February 1832, 4 pp
Vol 1, No 2, 25 February 1832, 4 pp
Vol 1, No 3, 3 March 1832, 4 pp
Vol 1, No 4, 10 March 1832, 4 pp
Vol 1, No 5, 17 March 1832, 4 pp
Vol 1, No 6, 24 March 1832, 4 pp
Item 53 God’s Revenge Against Murder
No 1, 27 April 1833, 8 pp
Item 54 The Gracchus; or, Advocate of the People
No 1, 27 June 1818, 8 pp
Item 55 The Green Man; or, Periodical Expositer
No 1, 31 October 1818, 8 pp
Item 56 The Halfpenny Library…
No I, 4 May 1832, 8 pp
No III, 11 May 1832, 8 pp
No IV, 15 May 1832, 8 pp
No V, 18 May 1832, 8 pp
Item 57 The True Half-Penny Magazine, of a Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
No 1, 4 May 1832, 8 pp
No 2, 11 May 1832, 8 pp
Item 58 The Harp of Erin; or, Faithful Irishmen
No 1, March 1818, 16 pp
Item 59 Holt’s Magazine. A Journal of Literature, Science and Education
No 1, 24 August 1836, 16 pp
Item 60 Lecture on the conduct of the Whigs, to the working classes by Henry Hunt, Esq, MP. (Birmingham) 1832
Item 61 The Idler
Vol 1, No 1, 24 May 1832, 4 pp
Item 62 The Independent: A London Literary and Political Review
Vol 1, No 1, 6 January 1821, 16 pp
Item 63 The Isis. A London Weekly Publication Edited by the Lady of the Rotunda
Vol 1, No 1, 11 February 1832, 16 pp
Item 64 The Isis, A London Weekly Publication Edited by the Lady of the Rotunda
Vol 1, No 4, 3 March 1832, 16 pp
Item 65 The Inspector, A Weekly Dramatic Paper: Advertisement, 2 pp
Item 66 The Inspector, A Weekly Dramatic Paper
No 1, 2 January 1819, 8 pp
Item 67 John Bull’s Picture Gallery. Political, Satirical and Humuorous
No 1, May 1832, 4 pp
No 2, 1832, 4 pp
No 3, 1832, 4 pp
No 4, 1832, 4 pp
Illustrated with many fine woodcuts
Item 68 The Kaleidoscope; or Literary and Scientific Mirror (Liverpool)
Vol IV NS No 164, 19 August 1823, 8 pp
Vol X No 491, 24 November 1829, 8 pp
Item 69 The Lawyer, a Legal Penny Magazine
No 1, 26 January 1833 8pp
Item 70 The Literary Chronicle and Weekly Review
No 1, 22 May 1819, 16 pp
No 3, 5 June 1819, 16 pp
Item 71 The Literary Gazette, and Journal of the Belles Lettres
No 1, 25 January 1817, 16 pp
Item 72 The Literary Journal….
No 1, 29 March 1818, 16 pp
No 41, 2 January 1819, 16 pp
Including The Portland or Barberini Vase and a portrait of George Alexander,
the extraordinary spotted boy
No 54, 3 April 1819, 12 pp
Item 73 The Literary Guardian
No 1, 1 October 1831, 16 pp
Item 74 Literary Register
No 1, 6 July 1822, 16 pp
Item 75 The Literary Test… (Second Edition)
No 1, 1 January 1832, 16 pp
Item 76 The London Penny Journal
No 1, 12 May 1832, 8 pp
Item 77 The London Museum…
No 1, 27 April 1822, 16 pp
Item 78 The London Politician
No 1, 31 May 1815, 10 pp
Item 79 The London Weekly Review; and Journal of Literature and the Fine Arts
No 1, 9 June 1827, 16 pp
Item 80 The London Policeman
No 1, 6 July 1833, 8 pp
No 2, 13 July 1833, 8 pp
Item 81 The Magazine of Interest
No 1, 31 August 1833, 8 pp
Item 82 The Maids’, Wives’, and Widows’ Penny Magazine and Gazette of Fashion
Poetry, advice to women, domestic economy, etc.
Vol 1, No 1, 27 October 1832, 8 pp
Vol 1, No 14, 26 January 1833, 8 pp
Item 83 The Man. A Rational Advocate
Vol 1, No 1, 7 July 1833, 8 pp
Item 84 The Man of Kent, or Canterbury. Political and Literary Weekly Miscellany
Vol 1, No 1, 19 September 1818, 8 pp
Item 85 Advertisement for The Man of Kent, 2 pp
Item 86 Merle’s Commercial Register
No 1, 18 November 1832, 4 pp
Item 87 Merle’s Weekly Register
No 1, 18 November 1832, 4 pp
Item 88 Merle’s Police and Law Register
No 1, 18 November 1832, (1832?) 4 pp
Item 89 Le Constitutional de Londres
No 1, 18 November 1832, 4pp
Item 90 Merle’s Church Register
No 1, 18 November 1832, 4 pp
Item 91 Merle’s Medical Register
No 1, 18 November 1832, 4 pp
Item 92 Merle’s Sporting Register
No 1, 18 November 1832, 4 pp
Item 93 Merle’s Literary Register
No 1, 18 November 1832
Item 94 The Milton Advertiser; or Literary Cabinet
No 1, (January 1837), 2 pp
Item 95 The Mirror
No 1, 21 October 1821, 16 pp
Item 96 The English Musical Gazette, or Monthly Intelligencer
1 January 1819, 22 pp
REEL SEVENTEEN
A Miscellaneous Volume containing short runs of 84 magazines published in the period 1808-1837.
Shelfmark: Hope 4º N-Y
Item 1 The National Magazine
No 1, 5 October 1833, 8 pp
Item 2 The National Register
No 37, 11 September 1808, 16 pp
No 41, 9 October 1808, 16 pp
No 335, 3 July 1814, 16 pp
No 398, 13 August 1815, 16 pp
No 410, 5 November 1815, 16 pp
Item 3 The New Moral World, and Official Gazette of the National Association of Industry, Humanity and Knowledge
No 1, 30 August 1834, 8 pp
Item 4 Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Northumberland Weekly Mirror of the Times, and Retrospect of Public Events
(No 1), 22 November 1817, 4 pp
Item 4 (sic) The New Penny Magazine…
No 1, 22 September 1832, 8pp
Item 5 The Old Bailey Reporter, or Annals of Crime
No 1, Vol 1, May 1832, 8pp
Item 6 The Opera Glass…
No V, 30 October 1826, 10 pp
Item 7 Original. A Weekly Magazine of Literature and the Fine Arts
No 1, 3 March 1832, 16 pp
Item 8 Paddy Kelly’s Budget; or, A Penny-Worth of Fun!! (Dublin)
No I, Vol I, 14 November 1832, 10 pp
No II, Vol I, 21 November 1832, 8 pp -
Includes The Spinster’s Alphabet (p 13)
No III, Vol I, 28 November 1832, 8 pp
No VIII, Vol I, 2 January 1833, 8 pp
No IX, Vol I, 9 January 1833, 8 pp
No XXVIII, Vol I, 7 August 1833, 8 pp
No XXX, Vol I, 21 August 1833, 8 pp
No LII, Vol I, 22 January 1834, 8 pp
Item 9 The Parochial Herald, and Marylebone and Finsbury Anti-Republican Journal
No 1, 16 January 1836, 4 pp
Item 10 The Parthenon
No 1, 26 October 1836, 16 pp
Item 11 The Pasquini; or General Satirist
No 1, 24 February 1821, 16 pp
Item 12 The Patriot (Manchester)
No 1, 28 August 1819, 8 pp
Item 13 The Patriot
No 1, 27 August 1831, 8 pp
(no No) The Patriot. The Friend of the People and the Enemy of Corruption
No 1, 4 February 1832, 8 pp
Item 13 (sic) A Penny Paper for the People, by the Poor Man’s Guardian
(No 1), 18 March 1831, 8 pp
Item 14 The Penny Biographical Dictionary
I, 29 August 18--, 8 pp
Item 15 The Penny Cyclopaedia
nd, 8 pp
Item 16 The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
No 1, 31 March 1832, 8 pp
Item 17, The Penny School-Book
No 1, 29 August 1832, 8 pp
Item 18 The Penny Magazine of the Society of the Diffusion of Useful Knoweledge
No 50, 12 January 1833, 8 pp
Item 19 The Phrenologist
Vol 1, No 1, 16 February 1833, 8 pp
Item 20 The Physician
No 1, 3 November 1832, 8 pp
Item 21 The Political Argus
Vol 1, No 1, The Political and Literary Argus, 8 February 1823, 18 pp
Vol 1, No 2, The Political and Literary Argus, 15 February 1823, 16 pp
Items 22-36 were all published by William Carpenter at the Office of Political Letter, Paternoster Row.
Item 22 A Political Letter
(No 1) 4 February 1831, 16 pp
Item 23 A Political Miscellany
9 December 1830, 16 pp
Item 24 A Political Pamphlet
26 February 1831, 16 pp
Item 25 A Letter of the Right Hon the Chancellor of the Exchequor
18 February 1831, 16 pp
Item 26 A Political Olio
5 March 1831, 24 pp
Item 27 A Political Reflector
18 March 1831, 16 pp
Item 28 A Political Director
30 April 1831, 16 pp
Item 29 A Political Guardian
22 April 1831, 16 pp
Item 30 A Political Omnibus
* April 1831, 16 pp
Item 31 A Political Repertory
1 April 1831, 16 pp
Item 32 A Letter to Lord Althorpe
4 December 1830, 16 pp
Item 33 A Second Letter to the Duke of Wellington
11 November(1830?), 16 pp
Item 34 A Letter to the Aristocracy of England
6 November 1830, 24 pp
Item 35 A Monitory Letter to the People of England
29 October (1830?), 16 pp
Item 36 Reform. Supplement to Carpenter’s Political Compendium
nd, 8 pp
Item 37 The Political Penny Magazine
No 1, 3 September 1836, 8 pp
No 2, 10 September 1836, 8 pp
“The working people of England require something stronger than the mere pabulum which the Education and Improvement-of-Society-Mongers are now cramming down the throats of the public. It may please women and children very well to see pictures of cabbage trees and cauliflowers, wild beasts and Arabs, and Hindoo temples, but I trust my readers will not think unpalatable or dull those which I shall occasionally lay before them”.
No 3, 17 September 1836, 8 pp
Item 38 The New Political Register by John Bell
No 1, Vol 1, 17 October 1835, 16 pp
Item 39 The Poor Man’s Guardian. A Weekly Paper for the People
No 8, 27 August 1831, 8 pp
No 15, 8 October 1831, 8 pp
Item 40 The Prodigy
No 1, 2 August 1833, 8 pp
Item 41 The Public Communicator, and General Advertiser
No 1, 14 January 1832, 8 pp
Item 42 Punch in London
No 1, 14 January 1831, 8 pp
No 16, 28 April 1832, 8 pp
Well illustrated with woodcuts
Item 43 Punchinello!
No 1, 20 January 1832, 8 pp
Item 44 The Quiz
No 1, 4 February 1836, 4 pp
Item 45, The Quizzical Gazette Extraordinary!!! And Wonderful Advertiser
No 1, (1 April 1819), 12 pp
No 2, (1 April 1820), 12 pp
No 3, (1 April 1821), 12 pp
No 4, (1 April 1822), 12 pp
No 5, (1 April 1822), 12 pp (supplement)
No 6, (1 April 1823), 12 pp
No 7, (1 April 1824), 12 pp
No 8, (1 April 1825), 12 pp
No 9, (1 April 1826), 12 pp
No 10, (1 April 1827), 12 pp
No 11, (1 April 1828), 12 pp
Item 46 The Reformer, or Schoolmaster Abroad
No 1, 2 June 1832, 16 pp
Item 47 The Regenerator, or Guide to Happiness
No 1, August (1832), 4pp
Item 48 The Republican
No 26, 17 September (1831), 8 pp
Item 49 The Republican Magazine
No 1, 16 February 1833, 8 pp
No 2, (supplement), 8 pp
Item 49a Roman Catholic Expositor, and Friend of Ireland (Dublin)
No 1, 21 February 1825, 8 pp
Item 50 The Rump Chronicle
No 1, 26 February 1819, 2 pp
No 2, 27 February 1819, 2 pp
No 3, 1 March 1819, 2 pp
No 4, 2 March 1819, 2 pp
No 5, 3 March 1819, 2 pp
Item 51 Salmagundi
No 1, 17 May 1823, 8 pp
Item 52 The Saturday Magazine
No 34, 12 January 1833, 8 pp
Item 53 The Scourgel! or, The Public Censor of the Drama, Music and “Things in General”
No 1, 22 June 1833, 4 pp
Item 54 Shadgett’s Weekly Reviews of Cobbett, Wooler, etc
No 1, 1 February 1818, 8 pp
Item 54a Prospectus for above, 4 pp
Item 55 The Shamrock; or Songster’s Repository (Dublin)
No 7, nd, 4 pp
Item 56 The Shepherd
No 1, 30 August 1834, 8 pp
Item 57 The Sketch Writer
No 1, 20 July 1832, 8 pp
Item 58 A Slap at the Times By Robert Cruikshank
No 1, (April 1832), 4 pp
Item 59 A Slap at the Church
No 1, (21 January 1832), 8 pp
Item 60 This number has been missed
Item 61 The Squib
No 1, 13 July 18--, 4 pp
Item 62 The Spirit of the Times or Universal Mirror
30 April 1818, 16 pp
1 June 1818, 16 pp
Item 63 The Theatrical John Bull, and Weekly Journal of Amusements
No 1, 12 October 1822, 8 pp
Item 64 The Thief: A London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Weekly Journal
No 1 NS, 8 September 1832, 16 pp
No 5 NS, 6 October 1832, 16 pp
No 14 NS, 8 December 1832, 16 pp
Item 65 The Tourist; or, Sketch Book of the Times
Vol 1, No 1, 17 September 1832, 8 pp
Includes “The Housewife” – directions on treatment of illness
Vol 1, No 3, 1 October 1832, 8 pp
Matrimonial correspondence
Vol 1, No 19, 7 January 1832, 8 pp
Item 66, The Trades’ Newspaper and Mechanics Weekly Journal
No 1, 17 July 1825, 16 pp
Item 67, The Truth!
No 1, 22 August 1832, 4 pp
Item 68 The Truth, A Weekly Radical Christian, and Family Newspaper
No 1, Vol 1, 10 February 1833, 16 pp
Item 69 Variety
No 1, 10 September 1814, 12 pp
With an article on Joanne Southcott, the religious writer
Item 70 Verbatim Report, &c
nd, 8 pp
Item 71 The Ulster Register; A Political and Literary Magazine (Belfast)
2 July 1816, 4 pp
Item 72 The Umpire
No 1, 4 January 1823, 20 pp
Item 73 Union
No 1, 26 November 1831, 16 pp
Item 74 Useful Knowledge for the People!
nd, 8 pp
Item 75 The Wanderer
No 1, 1 December 1832, 8 pp
Item 76 The Warder; or, Constitutional Observer
No X, 19 May 1821, 16 pp
Item 77 Ward’s Miscellany of Literature, Science and Religion
No 1, 4 January 1837, 16 pp
Item 78 The Wasp
No 1, 4 May 1837, 8 pp
Item 79 The Weekly Miscellany; or, New National Magazine of Instruction and Amusement
No 1, 7 July 1832, 8 pp
Item 75 (sic) The Weekly Show-up; or, Political, Satirical & General Humourist
No 1, 20 June 1832, 4 pp
Item 76 (sic) The Weekly Visitor and London Literary Museum
No 1, 21 January 1832, 8 pp
Item 77 (sic) The Whig-Dresser
No 1, 5 January 1833, 4 pp
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