Work and the Nineteenth-Century Press: Living Work for Living People

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Figures
Notes On Contributors
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: Living Work
	Notes
2 Information Put to Work: Provincial Newspapers as Publishers of Specialist Business and Work Information
	Editorial and Advertising: All Information
	Formatting Information: Chronology and Typology
		Local and Regional Weekly Newspapers
		Prices Current
		Specialist Trade Newspapers
		Professional Journals
		Trades Union and Workers’ Journals
	Information Sources
	Types of Trade, Professional and Work-Related Content
	The Culture of Work in the Local Press
	Conclusions
	Notes
3 Taxonomies and Procedures: The Case of Trade and Professional Periodicals
	Classificatory Procedure 1: The Morphological
	Classificatory Procedure 2: Formational (‘Genetic’)
	Classificatory Procedure 3: The Ecosystemic
	Classificatory Procedure 4: The Functional
	Notes
4 The Page as a Stage: Male Opera Singers and the Nineteenth-Century Press
	Celebrity, the Press and Private Life
	In Dialogue With the Press: Politics, Letters, Networks, Identity
	Braham and the John Bull Affair
	The Age of the Interview
	Gossip and Autobiography
	Notes
5 ‘Watch Case Secret Springer, Printer and Publisher’: The Many Work Identities of Richard Willoughby, Editor of the...
	Early Years in Clerkenwell
		The Druids’ Magazine
	Around 1840: Willoughby in the City
	Willoughby’s Purchase of the People’s Journal
	The Soldier’s Progress and the Peace Society
	Willoughby, Women’s Work and the British Workwoman
	Notes
6 ‘In the Hospital & Out of the Hospital’: Nurses and Nursing in Margaret Harkness’s Periodical Publications
	‘In the Hospital:’ Harkness’s Representations of the Work of Nursing
	‘Out of the Hospital’: Nursing Across Harkness’s Writing Career
	Conclusions: Voicing Nurses in the Popular Press
	Notes
7 ‘Higher Than Snuff Dealers’: The Bookseller and the Formation of Trade Identity
	A Modernised Trade Journal
	Trade and Literary Gossip
	Guidance and Advice
	The Welfare of Booksellers and Trade Associations
	Conclusion
	Notes
8 Trade Custom and the Courtesy of Acknowledgement: The Practice of Copying in the Late-Victorian Confectionery Trade Press
	Defending Confectionery Knowledge From Interlopers
	Imitation and the Courtesy of Acknowledgement in Journalism
	Conclusions
	Notes
9 Agricultural Journals in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
	Notes
10 The Limits of Work: The Early Years of the Bankers’ Magazine (1844–1995) and the Banking Institute (1851–3)
	The Environment: Banking and Banker’s Periodicals By 1844
	The Origins of the Bankers’ Magazine
	The Bankers’ Magazine and the First Banking Institute (1851–3)
	Notes
Bibliography
Index