Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
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Jane Williams
Cambrian Tales were serialized in Ainsworth's Magazine.
's Anna Williams
Verses to Sir Charles Grandison appeared in the
, on his Publication of Gentleman's Magazine.
's Agnes Wheeler
On returning to the north from London,
evidently found her eyes sharpened for the observation of provincial life. The Feminist Companion mentions her publishing at Kendal a book entitled Strictures upon the Inhabitants of a Market Town, under the pseudonym A Citizen of the World; since this has not been traced, and is not listed in the English Short Title Catalogue, it may have been a periodical publication.
Jane West
Thou sweet composer of earth-nurtur'd care, Sweet Poesy!), and a piece reprinted from a periodical. Her poems sometimes address fashionably abstract topics, but most are social and many topical. She writes elegies (on the French royal family, and about or addressed to various ladies), sonnets, odes (including an ambitious, four-part Ode on Poetry), pastorals, characters (in which Aurelia stands for Fortitude, Celinda for Sensibility, Miranda for Gentleness, and Stella for Diffidence), and poems about the work of other, mostly female, writers:
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. Male writers figure too, in an elegy on
and in Etna, written after reading
's travels.
includes some juvenile work in this collection (a poem on Easter and another, written at her mother's request, beginning Patrick Brydone published his Tour through Sicily and Malta in 1773, in the form of letters to
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Susanna Wesley
For the first time some of Arminian Magazine.
's writing was published: by her son
in the first volume of the Timberlake Wertenbaker
After the death of performer and dramatist The Guardian to supplement its obituary on McIntyre.
(1952-2009),
wrote to H. G. Wells
Wells thought women should have more control over their lives, as well as more government support, both financial and insitutional, for family planning and the rearing of children. In The Freewoman, he argues for women's full guardianship control over their offspring and questions the imperative of marriage.
Dorothy Wellesley
This draws on uncollected poems as well as printed volumes. Some of those uncollected were unpublished and some had appeared in the Adelphi.
Fay Weldon
Allure, Cosmopolitan, and the New York Times. For
's On Gender and Writing, 1983, she provided a fairly flippant piece entitled Me and My Shadows. Here
says she decided to interview herself because she gets bashful, in a supposedly English way, when asked to write about herself.
's non-fiction has appeared in many journals and magazines, including Susanna Watts
The current Leicester Journal and also published as a broadsheet.
turned twenty-one.
celebrated his coming of age in a poem that was carried by the Sarah Waters
While she was working on her thesis, A :
Girl on a Throne
and Versions of Lesbianism, 1906-1933 appeared in Feminist Review in 1994, The Most Famous Fairy in History:
and Homosexual Fantasy in Journal of the History of Sexuality in 1995, and Wolfskins and Togas: The Green Scamander and the Lesbian Historical Novel in
's Women: A Cultural Review in 1996.
also produced several academic articles. Anna Letitia Waring
The connection that Waring had made with Sunday Magazine, giving her poetry an estimated audience of ninety thousand.Dwelling in Safety (1870), A Song of Allegiance (1871), and Mercy before Sacrifice (1871) were published in this periodical.
gave her the opportunity to publish in his Priscilla Wakefield
She may possibly by the P. W. who contributed a letter to the eleventh number of the Monthly Magazine, 1801, arguing that working women ought to receive pay equal to that of men.
Ethel Lilian Voynich
In April 1920 (in the year she emigrated to New York) The Times about the local decline in some formerly common wild flowers (primroses, lilies of the valley) and to suggest a programme of deliberate re-seeding.
found time to write two successive letters to Charlotte Maria Tucker
The Children's Paper and other religious periodicals. These were often collected and bound as books for Sunday School prizes until well into the twentieth century.
wrote numerous tracts, as well as stories for Frances Eleanor Trollope
Cornhill Magazine, the Edinburgh Review, the Fortnightly Review, New Quarterly Magazine, Saint Pauls, Temple Bar, and the British Quarterly Review. She wrote on European history and literary topics such as realist fiction and
, as well as providing travel writing and features on countries including Germany, Italy, and Belgium.
contributed regularly to periodicals including the Flora Tristan
The text also appeared in the Parisian Journal du peuple on 16 December 1838. At the time,
's husband was facing trial for attempting to murder her. The first part of the title can be translated God Freedom Liberty but the word franchise is somewhat problematic, since it can mean some specific or particular freedom, or otherwise a privilege or entitlement. The subtitle states exactly what the work is: a petition for the abolition of the death penalty.
Sue Townsend
In Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman Aged 55 ¾, with allusion to her former impersonation of an adolescent male,
wrote in her own person of her likes and dislikes, taking her material from a decade of monthly columns contributed to Sainsbury's Magazine.
Emma Tennant
During the 1960s Queen and Vogue. She was founder-editor of Bananas, a journal of new writing that ran from 1975 to 1981 and attracted contributors like
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, and
. She has edited the Lives of Modern Women series published by
, and an anthology entitled Saturday Night Reader, 1979.
wrote for magazines like Anna Swanwick
Evolution and the Religion of the Future, expanded from an address which had been delivered to the
and printed in the Contemporary Review in 1876.
published a little book, Leah Sumbel
Over the signature Old Kent, Mary Wells (later
) contributed to The World theatre criticism and reports of, for instance, the trial of
. She and her friend
supplied many paragraphs together. She was a major reason for the success of the periodical.
Agnes Strickland
Even before settling in London,
began her professional authorial career with tales for children, many published in The Parting Gift, of which she was at that time the editor. She published for other children's annuals as well, such as the Juvenile Keepsake and the Juvenile Forget-me-not, of which she may also have been an editor. For career purposes the sisters cultivated
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and
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Biographer Fanny, apparently because of a momentary confusion with Fanny Trollope.
calls Sydney Morgan Noel Streatfeild
During the correspondence course in writing which impossible to market and far too fantastic, were accepted by a children's magazine. Even so, when she turned to professional authorship she had no intention of becoming a children's writer.
took more or less idly while she was mostly employed on the stage, she wrote three fairy stories which, although the course teachers said they were Elizabeth Stone
In February 1842 The Royal Sneeze in Ainsworth's Magazine. She was also a contributor to to the New Monthly Magazine. In 1844 she published a short story in Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts entitled The Widow's Son: A Tale.
contributed three pieces to periodicals, of which the first was Anne Steele
Verse [or Verses] on a Day of Prayer for Success of War was picked up from this publication for
's Lady's Poetical Magazine for December 1782.
's