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— Notes to pages 79–86 —
90 ‘The Heavenly Colour’, in Daybreak, no vol., no date, c. 1905, p. 15.
91 E. Poole, My Garden, Stirling, Drummond Tract Enterprise, 1889.
92 Cf. P. Branca, Silent Sisterhood: Middle-class Women in the Victorian Home,
London, Croom Helm, 1975, p. 147.
93 M. Beetham, A Magazine of Her Own? Domesticity and Desire in the
Woman’s Magazine, 1800–1914, London, Routledge, 1996, pp. 36–111,
157–73.
94 Chamber’s Journal, 6 February 1836.
95 E.D. Ermarth, The English Novel in History 1840–1895, London, Routledge,
1997, p. 206.
96 Chamber’s Journal, 13 February 1832, pp. 19–20.
97 Ibid., 25 August 1832, p. 233.
98 Ermarth, English Novel, p. 4.
99 Ibid., p. 40.
100 Ibid., p. 7.
101 Ibid., pp. 22, 27.
102 Ibid., pp. 27–8.
103 Ibid., pp. 31–2.
104 Ibid., pp. 41–65.
105 Quoted in D. Skilton (ed.), The Early and Mid-Victorian Novel, London,
Routledge, 1993, p. 26.
106 S. Foster, Victorian Women’s Fiction: Marriage, Freedom and the Individual,
Beckenham, Croom Helm, 1985, pp. 7, 15.
107 j. Dixon, The Romance Fiction of Mills & Boon, 1909–1990s, London, UCL
Press, 1999, pp. 33–4.
108 Ibid., pp. 167–8.
109 Ermarth, English Novel, pp. 199–202.
110 Something of this sort is suggested in D. Trotter, The English Novel in History
1895–1920, London, Routledge, 1993, p. 183.
111 C.G. Brown, ‘Popular culture and the continuing struggle for rational recreation’,
in T.M. Devine and R.J. Finlay (eds), Scotland in the Twentieth
Century, Edinburgh, John Donald, 1996.
112 Mrs Miniver, starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon (dir William Wyler,
MGM Films, 1942, original book by Jan Struther).
113 Quoted in A. Light, Forever England: Femininity, Literature and Conservatism
Between the Wars, London, Routledge, 1991, p. 117.
114 Ibid., p. 121.
115 Quoted in ibid., p. 123.
116 Ibid., p. 131.
117 Quoted in ibid., p. 146.
118 Girl’s Own Paper, vol. 7, 3 July 1886, p. 637.
119 Ibid., 10 July 1886, p. 644.
120 Ibid., 31 July 1886, p. 703.
121 Ibid., 4 September 1886, pp. 769–70.
122 Ibid., 8 October 1886, pp. 4–7; vol. 17, 7 March 1896, pp. 362–4.
123 Ibid., 28 March 1896, pp. 458–9.
124 Ibid., vol. 8, 15 January 1887, p. 252; vol. 17, 28 March 1896, pp. 403–4.
125 Ibid., vol. 37, 1916–17, p. 13.
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