Abstract
Imaginary Company
Jennifer Scanlon, Inarticulate Longings: The ‘Ladies’ Home Journal’, Gender, and the Promises of Consumer Culture, London: Routledge, 1995, £40, £12.99 (pbk.).
Penny Tinkler, Constructing Girlhood: Popular Magazines for Girls Growing Up in England, 1920–1950, London: Taylor & Francis, 1995, £38, £12.95 (pbk.).
Reading for Wifehood
Kate Flint, The Woman Reader, 1837–1914, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993, £25.
Literary Companions
Betty Rizzo, Companions without Vows: Relationships among Eighteenth‐Century British Women, Athens, GA and London: University of Georgia Press, 1994, $55.00.
Women's History Repeats Itself
Rene Denfeld, The New Victorians: A Young Woman's Challenge to the Old Feminist Order, London: Simon & Schuster, 1995, £16.99.