Iona Italia
has discussed Montagu's paper and its relation to Common Sense, or The Englishman's Journal in The Rise of Literary Journalism in the Eighteenth Century. Anxious Employment, 2005.
Textual Features
Eliza Haywood
The Female Spectator is acutely class-conscious, and addresses its advice on education to the gentry or aspiring gentry—while also delivering the message, as critic Iona Italia
puts it, that [g]entlemen may be a subgroup of...
Timeline
8 March 1710: A character in The Female Tatler, Emilia,...
Building item
8 March 1710
A character in The Female Tatler, Emilia, remarked that if it had not been for male tyranny we [i.e. women] had sat in Parliament
long before this time.
Italia, Iona. The Rise of Literary Journalism in the Eighteenth Century. Anxious employment. Routledge, 2005.
61-2
Texts
Italia, Iona. Philosophers, Knights-Errant, Coquettes and Old Maids. Cambridge University, 1997.
Italia, Iona. The Rise of Literary Journalism in the Eighteenth Century. Anxious employment. Routledge, 2005.