A series of five programmes 1: Taking Shape
'Innocent, modest, instructive and agreeable', were the qualities expected of the readers of women's journals of the 18th century but, when Victoria became Queen, the magazines began to reflect a new narrow role for women -that of wife and mother, a recipe which became the standard formula for the successful mass circulation weeklies of the 1930s. Commentary read by Maureen Lipman
Film editor JOHN JENNISON Director MARION ALLINSON Producer BERNARD ADAMS