Edinburgh History of Children's Periodicals

Kristine Moruzi is Associate Professor in the School of Communications and Creative Arts at Deakin University. She researches historical and contemporary children’s literature, with a particular focus on children’s periodicals and representations of gender. Her other monographs include From Colonial to Modern: Transnational Girlhood in Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand Children’s Literature (1840–1940) (2018, with Michelle J. Smith and Clare Bradford) and Constructing Girlhood through the Periodical Press, 1850–1915 (2012). She is co-editor of Literary Cultures and Nineteenth-Century Childhoods (2023), Children’s Voices from the Past: New Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2019), Affect, Emotion, and Children’s Literature: Representation and Socialisation in Texts for Children and Young Adults (2017), Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840–1950 (2014), and Girls’ School Stories, 1749–1929 (2014). Beth Rodgers is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK. She is the author of Adolescent Girlhood and Literary Culture at the Fin de Siècle: Daughters of Today (Palgrave, 2016), which received Special Mention in the University English Book Prize in 2017, and co-editor of Women, Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1830s–1900s (Edinburgh University Press, 2019) and Children’s Literature on the Move: Nations, Translations, Migrations (Four Courts, 2013). She has also published widely on the Irish author, L.T. Meade. Michelle J. Smith is an Associate Professor in Literary Studies at Monash University, Australia. Her most recent monograph is Consuming Female Beauty: British Literature and Periodicals, 1840–1914 (Edinburgh University Press, 2022). In the field of children’s literature, she is the author of From Colonial to Modern: Transnational Girlhood in Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand Children’s Literature, 1840–1940 (University of Toronto Press, 2018, with Clare Bradford and Kristine Moruzi) and Empire in British Girls’ Literature and Culture: Imperial Girls, 1880–1915 (Palgrave, 2011). Her co-edited collections include Literary Cultures and Nineteenth-Century Childhoods (Palgrave, in press), Young Adult Gothic Fiction: Monstrous Selves/Monstrous Others (University of Wales Press, 2021), Victorian Environments: Acclimatizing to Change in British Domestic and Colonial Culture (Palgrave, 2018), Affect, Emotion and Children’s Literature: Representation and Socialisation in Texts for Children and Young Adults (Routledge, 2017), Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840–1950 (Palgrave, 2014), and Girls’ School Stories, 1749–1929 (Routledge, 2013).

A highly awaited and longoverdue addition to the growing library of periodical studies reference books, the Edinburgh History of Children’s Periodicals is an exemplary endeavor, offering a first history of children’s periodicals. [...] This volume is a valuable resource, bound to enrich and inspire scholarly research on children’s magazines and children’s culture at large, drawing special attention to the possibilities of children’s engagement and stressing the importance of listening out for their voices.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsGeneral Introduction: Reading, Writing, and Creating Communities in Children’s Periodicals - Kristine Moruzi, Beth Rodgers, and Michelle J. SmithPart I: Telling Tales Introduction 1. The Lilliputian Magazine: Entertaining Education in the Service of Profit and Reform - Anne Markey2. For the Youth, By the Youth: Child-Centrism and the Rise of the Fantastic in Juvenile Print Cultures in Nineteenth-Century Ireland - Anindita Bhattacharya3. Old and New World Fairy Tales in St Nicholas Magazine - Michelle J. Smith4. Enid Blyton’s Wartime Sunny Stories: Facilitating Fantasies of Child Heroism - Siobhán Morrissey5. Girls Growing Up: Reading ‘Erotic Bloods’ in Interwar Britain - Lise Shapiro Sanders6. ‘There’s no room for demons when you’re self-possessed’: Supernatural Possession in British Girls’ Comics - Julia RoundPart II: Making Readers and Writers Introduction7. The Literary Olympic and Riddle Tournament: Competition and Community in Young Folks Paper (1871–1897) - Lee Atkins8. Children’s Columns in British Regional Newspapers - Siân Pooley9. School Magazines, Collective Cultures, and the Making of Late Victorian Periodical Culture - Catherine Sloan10. Charity, Cultural Exchange, and Generational Difference in Scottish Children’s Writing about the First World War - Lois Burke and Charlotte Lauder11. ‘My great ambition is to be an authoress’: Constructing Space for Literary Girlhoods in Australasian Children’s Correspondence Pages 1900–1930 - Anna Gilderdale12. The Indian English Periodical Target: Popularity and Nostalgia - Rizia Begum Laskar13. Classic Adventures and the Construction of the ‘Classic’ Reader in the 1990s - Beth RodgersPart III: Place and Self Introduction 14. The Brownies’ Book and the American Children’s Publishing Industry - Paul Ringel15. Who Speaks for Welsh Children? Early Welsh Children’s Periodicals - Siwan Rosser16. Colonial Modernity in Print Culture: Revisiting Juvenile Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Bengal - Stella Chitralekha Biswas17. Imagined Communities: Digital Tools for the Study of St. Nicholas’s Global and National Readership - Shawna McDermott18. Teaching Humanitarianism to British Children through the Junior Red Cross Journal in the 1920s - Andrée-Anne Plourde19. The Portrayal of Japanese Girls in British Girls’ Magazines between the 1880s and the 1910s - Yukiko Muta20. Scottish Stereotyping, Highlandism, and Stevenson in Young Folks Paper - Madeline B. GangnesPart IV: Politics and Activism Introduction 21. ‘I address you as owners’: The Victorian Child, the Missionary Ship, and the Juvenile Missionary Magazine - Michelle Elleray22. Conservationists or Conquerors?: Children, Nature, and the Environment in the Juvenile Companion and Sunday School Hive (1845–1888) - Shih-Wen Sue Chen23. ‘Everyone is requested to do all they can to get this paper taken in’: The Pleasures and Duties of Children’s Charity in the Waifs and Strays Society - Kristine Moruzi24. ‘The whole world is unquiet’: Imperial Rivalry and Global Politics in the London Pupil Teachers’ Association Record - Helen Sunderland25. ‘Sober Soldiers’: How Children’s Temperance Magazines Won the First World War - Annemarie McAllister26. ‘Inspire the Communist rebel spirit in the young people of our class’: An Overview of Communist Children’s Periodicals in Britain, 1917–1929 - Jane Rosen27. Wild Nature, Ecoliteracy, and Activism in Children’s Environmental Periodicals - Erin HawleyPart V: Girlhoods and Boyhoods Introduction28. Gendering Physical Activity and Sport in the Girl’s Own and Boy’s Own Papers - Dave Day 29. ‘Young film friends’: Gendering Children’s Film Culture in Interwar Film Periodicals - Lisa Stead30. ‘What becomes of the colored girl?’: Shifts in the Culture of Black Girlhood Within the Brownies’ Book - Amanda Awanjo31. Mid-Century Models: Postwar Girls’ Comics, Fashion, and Self-Fashioning - Jane Suzanne Carroll32. ‘A power in the home’: The Rise of the Teenage Girl Magazine and the Teen Girl Reader in Australia and the USA - Kirra Minton33. ‘My friend really loves history … can she look at that really old Jackie?’ Contemporary Girls Encountering Historical Periodicals for Girls - Mel Gibson Notes on ContributorsIndex