Resources

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The Lady’s Magazine (1770–1832) and the Making of Literary History

Jennie Batchelor

Edinburgh University Press, 2021 The biography of the first modern women’s magazine is due next year. Women in Print

Alison Adburgham

George Allen and Unwin, 1972 This remains the best study of 18thcentury women’s periodicals.

WEBSITES

THE BAVARIAN STATE LIBRARY

w bsb-muenchen.de/en

Digital copies of the magazine from 1770 to 1802 are available here. Many later volumes can be found via hathitrust.org, while archive.org

also has some at bit.ly/arch-ladys.

THE LADY’S MAGAZINE BLOG w blogs.kent.ac.uk/ladys-magazine Jennie Batchelor, Koenraad Claes and Jenny DiPlacidi discuss the title’s articles and contributors.

THE LADY’S MAGAZINE INDEX

w research.kent.ac.uk/the-ladys

magazine/index

Here you can download an openaccess database in Excel format indexing the more than 14,000 items published in the magazine between 1700 and 1818, which contains a wealth of searchable information on the periodical’s authors and contents. You can also find the database in web format at 18thcjournals.amdigital.co.uk/ lady s magazine index.