@CaitlynBBS I also think some great scholarship has recently been done on women writers / readers in Arthuriana. Just read Katie Garner's chapter, “More than a ‘Book for Boys’? Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur and the Victorian Girl Reader,” in https:/
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RT @Marie_LSJ: @DrNHetherington @RichardsonA_M @EsserHelena @maddohere @EHaugtvedt "The power of illustration seems forgotten nowadays that…
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@DrNHetherington @RichardsonA_M @EsserHelena @maddohere @EHaugtvedt "The power of illustration seems forgotten nowadays that adult literacy in England is 97% rather than roughly 60% around 1840 (41 % among working classes)." [D.F. Mitch, The Rise of Popula
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@MercedesSheldon Do you consider penny dreadfuls as periodicals? In this book chapter, I talk about reading them week by week through the illustrations in shop windows, like I followed gossip looking only at the cover of gossip magazines when I used to go