WOMEN ADVISING WOMEN
Advice Books, Manuals and Journals for Women, 1450-1837

Part 1: Early Women's Journals, c1700-1832, from the Bodleian Library, Oxford

REEL 1

Catalogue of a Collection of Early Newspapers & Essayists formed by the late John Thomas Hope Esq.

1577

The Courtyer of Count Baldessar Castilio… by Henry Denham.

1655

The Ladies Cabinet Enlarged and Opened:  Containing Many Rare Secrets and Rich Ornaments of several kindes and different uses.  By the late Right Honourable and Learned Chymist, the Lord Ruthven.  2nd edition.

1693

The Ladies Behaviour.  A Dialogue.  Written, Originally in Italian, above an hundred and fifty years agoe.

1693

The Ladies Mercury  Vol 1, No’s 1-4,  28 February 1693-17 March 1693 .

1705

A Legacy for the Ladies.  Or, Characters of the Women of the Age  By the late ingenious Mr Thomas Brown.

REEL 2

1709-10

The Female Tatler. By Mrs Crackenthorpe, a Lady that knows everything. 

No’s 1-115 (but misnumbered III)  8 July 1709-31 March 1710.

bound with:

1709

The Tory Tatler,  No’s 1-16.

and

1709-1711

The Tatler.  By Isaac Bickerstaffe.  No’s 1-330.

1727

The Ladies Journal.  No’s 1-22.  nd – 29 June 1727.

1719

The Mirrour.  No’s II-V, VII-X, XII.  12 February 1719-23 April 1719.

1728

The Parrot. By Mrs Prattle.  No’s 1-4. 25 September 1728-16 October 1728.

REEL 3

1744-1746

The Female Spectator.  By Eliza Haywood.  Vols I-IV, comprising books 1-24.

REEL 4

1746

The Parrot.  With a Compendium of the Times.  By the authors of ‘The Female Spectator’.  (Eliza Haywood)  No’s  I-IX.

1747

The Lady’s Weekly Magazine. Published under the direction of Mrs Penelope Pry. 

No 1.  19 February 1747.

1751-1753

The Midwife.  Or, Old Woman’s Magazine. By Mrs Mary Midnight (Christopher Smart)  Vols I-III.

followed by:

1751

An Index to Mankind: Or Maxims Selected from the Wits of all Nations for the Benefit of the Present Age and of Posterity.  By Mrs Mary Midnight.

REEL 5

1751

The Ladies Librar.y  Written by a Lady.  6th edition.

REEL 6

1750

The Student, or the Oxford and Cambridge Monthly Miscellany. Vol I, No’s I-X. 

31 January 1750-16 September 1750.

continued as:

1751

The Student, or the Oxford and Cambridge Monthly Miscellany.  Vol II, No’s I-X. (includes The Female Student).

1752

Have At You All; or, the Drury Lane Journal. By Madame Roxana Termagant. 

No’s I-XIII. 16 January 1752-9 April 1752.

REEL 7

1752

The Lady’s Curiosity; or, Weekly Apollo. By Nestor Druid, Gent,  No’s I-IV, VI-XII, XIV-XV, XVII, XIX-XX & XIII plus Fables.

1752

The Spring – Garden Journal. By Miss Priscilla Termagent (a near relation of the late Mrs Roxana). No’s I-IV.

1752

(also The New Female Spectator No III, a direct continuation).

1753

The Inspector. No’s 1-152.

REEL 8

1755

The Matrimonial Preceptor.  A Collection of Examples and Precepts relating to the Married State from the most celebrated writers ancient and modern.  No's 1-65.

1755-1756

The Old Maid. By Mary Singleton, Spinster. No’s I-XXXVII.

1756

The Wife. By Mira, One of the Authors of ‘The Female Spectator’,  and ‘Epistles for Ladies’.  (Eliza Haywood).

1756

The Young Lady. By Euphrosyne. No’s I-VII.

REEL 9

1759

The Invisible Spy. By Explorabilis (Eliza Haywood).  2 volumes.

1774

The Friend; or, Essays Instructive and Entertaining for Youth of Both Sexes; on the Most Important Subjects: Exemplified with Stories from Real Life.

1769

An Essay on Laughter, wherein are displayed, its natural and moral causes, with the arts of Exciting it.

1787

The Female Guardian.  Designed to correct some of the foibles incident to Girls and supply them with innocent amusement for their hours of leisure.  By a Lady. 

2nd edition. No’s I-XXXIII.

REEL 10

1786-1787

The Pharos:  A collection of Periodical Essays. By the author of ‘Constance’.  2 vols.

1793

The Female Mentor: or, select conversations. 3 vols.

REEL 11

1793

The Lady’s Miscellany.  Or, Pleasing Essays, Poems, Stories and Examples for the Instruction and Entertainment of the Female Sex in general, in every station of life.  By George Wright, Esq, author of the Rural Christian, Pleasing-Melancholy, etc.

1795

The Parlour Window, containing Original Essays, Poetry, and part of an Instructive Tale. (By Mrs Eustace and her sister).  No’s 1-5.

1796

The Parental Monitor. By Mrs Bonhote, author of Olivia, etc.  3rd edition.  4 vols.

1797

The Masonic Mirror.  (Original essay from The Lady’s Magazine).

REEL 12

1798-1799

The Lady’s Monthly Museum, or Polite Repository of Amusement and Instruction:  Being an assemblage of whatever can tend to please the fancy, interest the Mind, or exalt the Character of the British Fair.  By a Society of Ladies.  Vols 1 & 2. 

July 1798-June 1799 (including The Old Woman  No’s I-XII).

REEL 13

1799-1800

The Lady’s Monthly Museum, or Polite Repository of Amusement and Instruction:  Being an assemblage of whatever can tend to please the fancy, interest the Mind, or exalt the Character of the British Fair.  By a Society of Ladies.  Vols 3 & 4. July 1799-June 1800.

(including The Old Woman  No’s I-XIII-XXIV and The Inspector No’s I-II).

REEL 14

1803

Essays on the Art of Being Happy.  Addrssed to a Young Mother. By Eugenia Acton, author of ‘Microcosm’,  ‘A tale without a title’ etc.  2 volumes.

1806

Essays and Letters on important and interesting subjects. By Juliana Yonge, author of A Short Commentary on the Bible’, ‘On the Importance of the Baptismal Vow’ etc. 2 volumes.  2nd edition.

1822

The Scrinium. By Rebecca Edridge. Volume I.

REEL 15

1822

The Scrinium. By Rebecca Edridge. Volume II.

1832

The Isis, A London Weekly Publication. Edited by a Lady. Vol 1 No 1 – Vol 1 No 39.  11 February 1832-15 December 1832.

REEL 16

A Miscellaneous Volume containing short runs of 97 magazines published in the period, 1807-1837, including:

1807

Item 15  The Briton’s Friend: or Moral, and Oeconomical Register. No’s 1-4.

1820

Item 22  The Christian Moralist.

1832

Item 23  The Christian’s Penny Magazine.

1832

Item 31  The Crisis; or the change from Error and Misery, to Truth and Hapiness (Ed) Robert Owen.

1821-1822

Item 42  The Family Gazette; or Literary & Philanthropic Journal.

1833

Item 43  The Fashionable Magazine.

1832

Items 63 & 64  The Isis.

1832-1833

Item 82  The Maids, Wives and Widows Penny Magazine and Gazette of Fashion.

REEL 17

A Miscellaneous Volume containing short runs of 84 magazines published in the period, 1808-1837 including:

1834

Item 3  The New Moral World, and Official Gazette of the National Association of Industry, Humanity and Knowledge.

1826

Item 6  The Opera Glass.

1833

Item 19  The Phrenologist.

1830-1831

Items 22-36  The Carpenter’s Political Letters.

1819-1828

Items 45  The Quizzical Gazette Extraordinary!!! And Wonderful Advertiser.

1832

Item 47  The Regenerator, or Guide to Happiness.

1832

Item 65  The Tourist; or, Sketch Book of the Times.

1833

Item 68  The Truth.  A Weekly Radical Christian, and Family Newspaper.

1832

Item 79  The Weekly Miscellany; or, new National Magazine of Instruction and Amusement.

1832

Item 76 (sic)  The Weekly Visitor and London Literary Museum.