James Malcolm Rymer, Penny Fiction, and the Family

Cover
Endorsement Page
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Acronyms
Introduction: James Malcolm Rymer, Penny Fiction, and the Family
	Rymer’s Canon Recovered
	From ‘Friends’ to Family
	Rymer and Family, Inc.
	Family Readers and Reading
	The Working Family Romance
	Reading Rymer ‘Sideways’
	Outline of Chapters
	Notes
Chapter 1: The Rymers: A Cockney Artistic-Literary Family, 1806–1842
	Cockneyism
	Malcolm Rymer and ‘Pride of Birth’
	A Cockney Poet
	Louisa Rymer: ‘The Gauze and the Lawn’
	Engravers and Artists
	An ‘Artist of Note’
	‘His Father’s House’
	Notes
Chapter 2: The Queen’s Magazine: A ‘Spirit of the Age’, 1842
	‘Enchanter’ and ‘Spirit’
	Popular Writing
		Jane Shore
	The Queen’s Magazine Takes a Bow
	Notes
Chapter 3: Ada the Betrayed: Chartist Domesticity, 1842–1843
	The Politics of Lloyd’s Penny Weekly Miscellany
	Ada’s Chartist Rhetoric
	Ada the Auxiliary
	Ada the Educator
	Notes
Chapter 4: Rymer’s Domestic Romance: Varney and The String of Pearls, 1845–1850
	The Domestic Romance Revolution
	Lloyd’s ‘Domestic Romance’ Business
	Rymer’s Domestic Romance
	Varney the Vampyre
	The String of Pearls
	‘Domestic Entertainment’
	Notes
Chapter 5: The Sepoys: Family Imperialism in India, 1858
	The ‘Suspect Radical’
	Reynolds and the Rebellion
	The Sepoys
	A Suspect Sepoy
	Jessie the Worker
	Imperialist Intermarriage
	Notes
Chapter 6: Rymer’s Highwaymen: Outlaws and Paterfamiliae, 1859–1866
	Novels with Secrets
	Electoral Reform Revived
	Edith the Captive and Edith Heron
		George Barrington
		A Mystery in Scarlet
	Notes
Coda: Rymer the Betrayed: ‘Penny Dreadfuls’, Panic, and ‘Boys’ Books’, 1870–1960
	The ‘Penny Dreadful Panic’
	‘Boys’ Fiction?
	Conclusion
	Notes
Bibliography
Index