Constructing Girlhood Through the Periodical Press, 1850–1915

Moruzi, Kristine

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“…Searching the Australian Newspaper Digitisation Program database via Trove confirms the findings from research on British youth magazines (Moruzi, 2012) that demonstrates the investments of religious and educational groups in ephemeral publications for youth as well as the diversity of children's reading cultures. The first magazine for children to be published in Australia was The Children 's Hour (1899's Hour ( -1963, originally produced by the South Australian Education Department.…”

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Forgotten Histories: Ephemeral Culture for Children and the Digital Archive

Rutherford¹

2014

Media International Australia

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The history of children's popular culture in Australia is still to be written. This article examines Australian print publication for children from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries, together with radio and children's television programming from the 1950s to the 1970s. It presents new scholarship on the history of children's magazines and newspapers, sourced from digital archives such as Trove, and documents new sources for early works by Australian children's writers. The discussion covers early television production for children, mobilising digital resources that have hitherto not informed scholarship in the field.

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Forgotten Histories: Ephemeral Culture for Children and the Digital Archive

Rutherford¹

2014

Media International Australia

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“…British middle-class girls' periodicals during this period included a variety of different perspectives about the types of behaviours that were appropriate for girls, but they show remarkable consistency regarding the importance of duty, family, work, femininity and purity. 8 Although the girls who are depicted in the turn-of-the-century periodicals were demonstrably more modern in their social and economic attitudes, they nonetheless remained concerned about fulfilling their responsibilities to their families, being engaged in useful work, and maintaining their health, beauty and reputation. This feminine ideal was not defined as explicitly imperial, but remained an important focus as many of these magazines discussed the British colonies and the kinds of girls who would be most suitable for emigration.…”

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The British Empire and Australian Girls' Annuals

Moruzi¹

2014

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“…[4.13] But the differences between Presco 's work for TGOP and its other musical content are not unique to her writings; they reflect a larger trend within women's periodicals of this era. Feminist scholars such as Beetham (1996), Moruzi (2012), and Moruzi and Smith (2010) have argued that the incongruous content within Victorian women's periodicals serves as an important site for constructing-and deconstructing-traditional ideas of womanhood. In her groundbreaking work on nineteenth-century women's periodicals, Beetham explains that "femininity is always represented in [women's] magazines as fractured, not least because it is simultaneously assumed as given and as still to be achieved .…”

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“…Return to text 17. Barger 2016, 3;Beetham 1996, 138;Forrester 1980, 14;Moruzi 2012, 10, 83. Skelding (2001 characterizes TGOP as the "best-selling and longest-running" periodical for women of its time.…”

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Music Theory for the “Weaker Sex”: Oliveria Prescott’s Columns forThe Girl’s Own Paper

Lumsden

2020

MTO

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In this article, I examine a cluster of music theory essays by Oliveria Louisa Prescott (1842–1917), which were published between 1886 and 1891 in The Girl’s Own Paper (TGOP), the most popular periodical for young women in Victorian England. Although little known today, Prescott sustained a vibrant musical career in London as a composer and teacher, and her articles on music theory regularly appeared in major periodicals such as The Musical World and TGOP. Prescott’s work for TGOP presents a rare opportunity to explore music theory that was not just written by a woman, but also intended for a genteel female audience in the Victorian era. Her articles include explanations of fundamental theoretical subjects (cadences, basic harmonic progressions) as well as short analyses of solo piano works by Beethoven and Mendelssohn. But these articles are also noteworthy for their discussions of more advanced theoretical topics (such as chromatic harmony), concepts that might seem surprising for a popular periodical for young ladies. Mainstream journalism is often devalued as a “less serious” form of intellectual discourse, but Prescott’s work complicates stereotypes of ignorant amateur female musicians and the so-called “private” sphere, and it demonstrates how print journalism could serve as a vital public platform for the circulation of music theory among young British women in the Victorian era.

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Constructing Girlhood Through the Periodical Press, 1850–1915

Cited by 22 publications

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Forgotten Histories: Ephemeral Culture for Children and the Digital Archive

Forgotten Histories: Ephemeral Culture for Children and the Digital Archive

The British Empire and Australian Girls' Annuals

Music Theory for the “Weaker Sex”: Oliveria Prescott’s Columns forThe Girl’s Own Paper

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