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Encounters in the Victorian Press Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture General Editor: Joseph Bristow, Professor of English, UCLA Editorial Advisory Board: Hilary Fraser, Birkbeck College, University of London;Josephine McDonagh, Linacre College, University of Oxford; Yopie Prins, University of Michigan; Lindsay Smith, University of Sussex; Margaret D. Stetz, University of Delaware; Jenny Bourne Taylor, University of Sussex Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Cultureis a new monograph series that aims to represent the most innovative research on literary works that were produced in the English-speaking world from the time of the Napoleonic Wars to the fin de siècle. Attentive to the historical continuities between ‘Romantic’ and ‘Victorian’, the series will feature studies that help scholarship to reassess the meaning of these terms during a century marked by diverse cultural, literary, and political movements. The main aim of the series is to look at the increasing influence of types of historicism on our understanding of literary forms and genres. It reflects the shift from critical theory to cultural history that has affected not only the period 1800–1900 but also every field within the discipline of English literature. All titles in the series seek to offer fresh critical perspectives and challenging readings of both canonical and non-canonical writings of this era. Titles include: Laurel Brake and Julie F. Codell (editors) ENCOUNTERS IN THE VICTORIAN PRESS Editors, Authors, Readers Dennis Denisoff SEXUAL VISUALITY FROM LITERATURE TO FILM, 1850–1950 Laura E. Franey VICTORIAN TRAVEL WRITING AND IMPERIAL VIOLENCE Lawrence Frank VICTORIAN DETECTIVE FICTION AND THE NATURE OF EVIDENCE The Scientific Investigations of Poe, Dickens and Doyle Encounters in the Victorian Press Editors, Authors, Readers Edited by Laurel Brake and Julie F. Codell Selection and editorial matter © Laurel Brake and Julie F.Codell 2005 All Chapters © Palgrave Macmillan 2005 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2005 978-1-4039-4177-0 All rights reserved.No reproduction,copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced,copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988,or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency,90 Tottenham Court Road,London W1T 4LP. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2005 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Houndmills,Basingstoke,Hampshire RG21 6XS and 175 Fifth Avenue,New York,N.Y.10010 Companies and representatives throughout the world PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St.Martin’s Press,LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United States,United Kingdom and other countries.Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-52106-7 ISBN 978-0-230-52256-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230522565 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Encounters in the Victorian press:editors,authors,readers / edited by Laurel Brake & Julie F.Codell. p.cm.– (Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. English literature – 19th century – History and criticism. 2. Periodicals – Publishing – Great Britain – History – 19th century. 3. Authors and publishers – Great Britain – History – 19th century. 4. Literature publishing – Great Britain – History – 19th century. 5. Authors and readers – Great Britain – History – 19th century. 6. Books and reading – Great Britain – History – 19th century. 7. Great Britain – Intellectual life – 19th century. 8. Press – Great Britain – History – 19th century. 9. English periodicals – History – 19th century. 10. Editing – History – 19th century. I. Brake, Laurel,1941– II. Codell,Julie F. III. Series. PR463.E56 2004 2004050894 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 In Memory of Josef Altholz and Barbara Quinn Schmidt This page intentionally left blank Contents List of Illustrations ix List of Tables x Acknowledgements xi Notes on Contributors xii Introduction: Encountering the Press 1 Laurel Brake and Julie F. Codell Part I: Early Victorian Press Encounters 1. Civic Publicness: The Creation of Queen Victoria’s Royal Role 1837–61 11 John Plunkett 2. ‘Nothing but a Newspaper’: The Contested Space of Serial Fiction in the 1840s Press 29 Graham Law 3. Textual Encounters in Eliza Cook’s Journal: Class, Gender, and Sexuality 50 Johanna M. Smith Part II: Encountering Gender and Class 4. Encountering Time: Memory and Tradition in the Radical Victorian Press 69 Ian Haywood 5. Preaching to the Ladies: Florence Fenwick Miller and her Readers in the Illustrated London News 88 Barbara Onslow 6. Knowing Hodge: The Third Reform Bill and the Victorian Periodical Press 103 Patricia O’Hara Part III: Urban Encounters 7. Encounters in the Westminster Review: Dialogues on Marriage and Divorce 119 Sheila Rosenberg vii viii Contents 8. Urban Encounters and Visual Play in the Yellow Book 138 Mark W. Turner 9. The ‘Atlas’ and the Butterfly: James McNeill Whistler, Edmund Yates and the World 161 Patricia de Montfort Part IV: Politicial Encounters 10. The Dart and the Damning of the Sylvan Stream: Journalism and Political Culture in the Late-Victorian City 177 Aled Jones 11. Islam, Women, and Imperial Administration: Encounters and Antagonisms between British and Colonial Authors in the Victorian Press 195 Julie F. Codell 12. ‘Government by Journalism’ and the Silence of the Star: Victorian Encounters, 1885–90 213 Laurel Brake Bibliography 236 Index 249 Compiled by Drusilla Calvert List of Illustrations 1. ‘There’s no place like home’, Punch, 9 (1845), 109. Courtesy of University of Exeter Library. 19 2. Front-page coverage of the British royal family 1842–62. 23 3. ‘Queen Victoria’s Visit to Birmingham’, Illustrated London News, 3 July 1858, 1. Courtesy of University of Exeter Library. 25 4. ‘Queen Victoria’s Visit to Liverpool’, Illustrated London News, 2 Oct 1851, 489. Courtesy of University of Exeter Library. 26 5. ‘Monument to the memory of Henry Hunt’, front page of the Northern Star, 20 August 1842. 76 6. Aubrey Beardsley, Cover, Yellow Book, I, April 1894. 143 7. Aubrey Beardsley, Cover, Yellow Book, III, October 1894. 145 8. Walter Sickert, ‘The Bedford Music Hall’, reproduced in Yellow Book, II, July 1894. 146 9. Title page, Dart, 13 May 1892. 179 10. ‘The Slavery of the Rate Craze!’, Dart, 11 March 1892. 187 ix

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