Beth Palmer completed her doctorate at Trinity College, Oxford. She has taught at Keble College, Oxford, the University of Leeds, and is now a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Surrey.

Beth Palmer's Women's Authorship and Editorship in Victorian Culture is a welcome contribution to our understanding of the ways in which nineteenth-century women navigated the complex literary marketplace ... Palmer's clearly written and convincingly argued book brings these women and their savvy strategies for success back into the spotlight as important trailblazers in the mid-Victorian periodical press.

• INTRODUCTION ; 1. A different context for sensation: serialisation, celebrity culture, and the feminist press ; 2. Mary Elizabeth Braddon's 'Strong Measures' ; 3. Ellen Wood, religious feeling, and sensation ; 4. Florence Marryat on page and on stage ; 5. The New Woman, the legacies of sensation, and the press of the 1890s ; CONCLUSION ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; INDEX

Beth Palmer completed her doctorate at Trinity College, Oxford. She has taught at Keble College, Oxford, the University of Leeds, and is now a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Surrey.

Beth Palmer's Women's Authorship and Editorship in Victorian Culture is a welcome contribution to our understanding of the ways in which nineteenth-century women navigated the complex literary marketplace ... Palmer's clearly written and convincingly argued book brings these women and their savvy strategies for success back into the spotlight as important trailblazers in the mid-Victorian periodical press.

• INTRODUCTION ; 1. A different context for sensation: serialisation, celebrity culture, and the feminist press ; 2. Mary Elizabeth Braddon's 'Strong Measures' ; 3. Ellen Wood, religious feeling, and sensation ; 4. Florence Marryat on page and on stage ; 5. The New Woman, the legacies of sensation, and the press of the 1890s ; CONCLUSION ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; INDEX

Beth Palmer completed her doctorate at Trinity College, Oxford. She has taught at Keble College, Oxford, the University of Leeds, and is now a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Surrey.

Beth Palmer's Women's Authorship and Editorship in Victorian Culture is a welcome contribution to our understanding of the ways in which nineteenth-century women navigated the complex literary marketplace ... Palmer's clearly written and convincingly argued book brings these women and their savvy strategies for success back into the spotlight as important trailblazers in the mid-Victorian periodical press.

• INTRODUCTION ; 1. A different context for sensation: serialisation, celebrity culture, and the feminist press ; 2. Mary Elizabeth Braddon's 'Strong Measures' ; 3. Ellen Wood, religious feeling, and sensation ; 4. Florence Marryat on page and on stage ; 5. The New Woman, the legacies of sensation, and the press of the 1890s ; CONCLUSION ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; INDEX