The Education of European and Chinese Girls at Home in the Nineteenth Century

This chapter discusses the material conditions for the emergence of a publishing and print culture in early British India and throughout the first half of the nineteenth century. It explores the demographic and economic factors affecting the development of the publishing industry. It argues that newspapers and literary titles were not simply a conduit for the distribution of the news and culture of ‘home’ across India, but also provided a forum in which the British community in India could write for (and often about) itself, thus enabling the development of a sense of local and colonial identity, related to but also set apart from the identity of the British at ‘home’.

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The Rise and Rise of the Domestic Magazine: Femininity at Home in Popular Periodicals

Women, Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1830s-1900s ◽

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474433907.003.0002 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 18-31

Author(s):

Margaret Beetham

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

New Journalism ◽

At Home

In this chapter, Beetham offers a valuable overview of the emergence of the domestic magazine across the second half of the nineteenth century. Though acknowledging the ‘complex meanings of “home” and the “domestic” and how they relate to femininity,’ Beetham argues that ‘it is in the pages of the magazines read by the “ordinary” woman at home where those debates were and are worked through in that complex interweaving of materiality, emotion, and ideology in which we all struggle to give meaning to our lives’ (18). Beetham’s historical sweep of the domestic magazine as a publishing genre includes Samuel Beeton’s trailblazing Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine (1852–90), evangelical mothers’ magazines, and the cheap penny weeklies of the 1890s. She considers the ways in which we define such publications, account for their contradictions, and understand their relationship to earlier ladies’ magazines, together with new elements of their own invention and later of the New Journalism. In this way, she provides an important foundation for the essays in this section and the volume as a whole.

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Afterword

Global Migrations ◽

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474410045.003.0015 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Eric Richards

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

League Tables ◽

Regional Divergence ◽

International League ◽

At Home

Scotland from the mid-18th century found a distinctive place in the international league tables of emigration and imperial involvement. Questions discussed in this chapter include the paradox of Scotland’s precocious industrialisation concurrent with its early and continuing outflows of emigrants and capital exports. These matters also relate to the problem of regional divergence within Scotland during the nineteenth century and the fate of the Highlands. The idea of the ‘diaspora’ generates currently controversial claims about Scottish identity at home and abroad. Quantifying Scotland’s exceptionality on all these issues entails tricky comparisons with other countries and also exposes important immeasurable elements in such comparisons. They all connect with the life’s work of Tom Devine.

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At Home in the Nineteenth Century

Victorian Photography, Literature, and the Invention of Modern Memory : Already the Past ◽

10.5040/9781474263115.ch-007 ◽

2017 ◽

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

At Home

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‘May God Bless You and All at Home’: Mid-Nineteenth Century Irish Views on Italy through the Letters of Albert Delahoyde, 1860–1870

Literacy, Language and Reading in Nineteenth-Century Ireland ◽

10.3828/liverpool/9781786942081.003.0008 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 126-138

Author(s):

Florry O’Driscoll

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Language Learning ◽

Papal States ◽

Writing Identity ◽

The Many ◽

The Individual ◽

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This chapter explores the case-study of Dublin-born Albert Delahoyde as an instance of transnational language learning. Delahoyde was not yet eighteen years of age when he volunteered to fight with the Papal Battalion of St Patrick in 1860, in an ultimately futile attempt to maintain Pope Pius IX’s control over the Papal States. Through his letters, one can assess the individual, but also the communal significance of both the Papal Battalion and the Papal Zouaves, and the many contacts between Ireland and Italy in the mid-nineteenth century. Delahoyde provides a perfect example of practical literacy in action, as the correspondence of the Irish soldier reveals much about the links between writing, identity, and nation at the midpoint of the nineteenth century.

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