Illustrate and account for the distinguishing features of magazines for middle-class and working-class women in the nineteenth century

Illustrate and account for the distinguishing features of magazines for middle-class and working-class women in the nineteenth century

A popular magazine, aimed primarily with their editorial content to women. Women's magazines cover primarily topics that meet the communication needs of female readers. The report mainly revolves around fashion, beauty, life in the family, education and employment of women and food, etc. are complemented these issues through novels, essays and series of special cultural areas. Similar to the current magazines also dominated in women's magazines, the pictorial representation of a journalistic medium. Women's magazines have in common is that they turn to a female audience over 18 years. They normally aim to certain groups of women and not to all women. These groups may be age groups or represent religious, political or sexual preferences.

The titles are also aimed at specific interests and educational backgrounds of the readers. They are examined regularly in market studies that analyze potential and actual readers including with regard to age, education level, occupation, and income and consumption patterns. Divisions based on women's titles such as fashion magazines, or political women's magazines. Even in professional journals, there are magazines that appeal to women in particular. Examples include publications for female professionals, professionals with clients (women's and girls' work) or scholarly journals on feminism.

Overall, concept of "women's magazine 'is a generic term for a variety of different magazines. The contents are more or less up to date and varied. Smaller tracks are due to the small print runs only in certain retail outlets such as the station trade or alone in the subscription sold. Many of titles with high requirements are based on sales. Most women's magazines are distributed nationally. Some titles are published internationally, few are regionally oriented.

The terms "women's magazine", "newspaper woman" started using towards the end of the 18th century. In the early 19th century, magazines published periodically called journals for women, etc. The classification of a journal as a "women's magazine" is the 19th Century is not unique. An explicit expression for a female audience in no way meant that they wanted to know interested precluded men from reading. In addition, the boundary is drawn between the sometimes irregular and longer intervals as well as journalists and the end of the century, more and more popular muses, almanacs, calendars, pocket books and not clear.

The first women's magazines, which were directed deliberately at a female audience, such as John Souter "British Lady's Magazine," The Metropolitan Magazine" “London Review" or “Northern Star” tried with memorable, provocative titles to their readers to approach.

For the 19th Century, four women's magazine types typical: the entertaining magazines - as a poor imitation of the moral weeklies, fashion magazines, the experience by improving the print and image quality of recovery, and the politically motivated press products, the feminist demands often proclaim from the proletarian women's movement, and the easily digestible family leaves that offer a mix of instruction and entertainment. (Wells, 2011, pp. 89-94).

The main focus of the discussion is the distinguishing features of the women magazines of the 19th century. Therefore, for this purpose the author highlighted various aspects of the magazines that in ...