Women's magazines in the 18th and 19th centuries
'If we are endu'd with rational faculties, why are we denied the due improvement of them? Why are we kept in total ignorance of everything but domestic affairst Drudging in a family or taught to set off our persons to arrive at the sum-mum bonum of every woman - a husband!
THE LADY'S MONTHLY
MUSEUM, 1725
The first regular magazine for women appeared in the 1690s and others followed quickly. Many early publications had a surprisingly radical tone containing an ingredient well-known to modern readers - the problem page '. June Knox-Mawer looks at some early ' agony columns and examines the light they shed on prevailing attitudes to women. with Frances Jeater David Mnhlowe Paul Rowland
Marlene Sidaway and Helen Worth
Producer ALASTAIR WILSON