Eighteenth Century Periodicals Written Primarily By or For Women
Though not entirely comprehensive, this list provides some sense of both the large number of periodicals circulating for women during the eighteenth century and the short life spans most endured. The lines between magazines "written primarily by or for women" and those written for the general public are not hard and fast, but these publications appear to have addressed themselves particularly to ladies. Some of the "authors" the periodicals claim are listed; most are pseudonyms.
1693 The Ladies Mercury
1705 A Legacy for the Ladies, or Characters of the Women of the Age By Mr. Thomas Brown
1709-10 The Female Tatler By Mrs. Crackenthorpe
1709 The Whisperer By Mrs. Jenny Distaff
1710 Records of Love, or Weekly Amusements for the Fair Sex
1714 The Spinster By Rachel Woolpack
1715 The Lover
1715-16 Town Talk, In a Letter to a Lady in the Country
1716 Chit Chat By Humphrey Philroye
1723 Young Ladies’ Miscellany
1724 The Tea Table By Eliza Haywood
1727 The Ladies’ Journal (Ireland)
1728 The Parrot By Mrs Penelope Prattle
1732-3 The Friendly Writer and Register of Truth By Ruth Collins
1733 The Lady’s Magazine, or Monthly Intelligencer
1738-9 The Lady’s Magazine, or Compleat Library
1744-46 The Female Spectator By Eliza Haywood
1746 The Parrot. With a Compendium of the Times By the authors of The Female Spectator
1747 The Lady’s Weekly Magazine By Mrs. Penelope Pry
1749-53 The Ladies’ Magazine, or the Universal Entertainer By Jasper Goodwill of Oxford, Esq.
1751-53 The Midwife, or Old Woman’s Magazine By Mrs. Mary Midnight
1751 The Ladies Library Written by a Lady
1752 Have At You All, or the Drury Lane Journal By Madame Roxana Termagant
1752 The Lady’s Curiosity, or Weekly Apollo By Nestor Druid, Gent
1755-56 The Old Maid By Mary Singleton, Spinster
1756 The Wife By Mira (Eliza Haywood)
1756 The Young Lady By Euphrosyne
1759 The Invisible Spy By Explorabilis (Eliza Haywood)
1759-63 The Lady’s Magazine, or Polite Companion for the Fair Sex
1760 The Royal Female Magazine
1760-1 The Lady’s Museum
1765-9 The Court Miscellany, or Ladies’ New Magazine By Matilda Wentworth & others
1770-1832 The Lady’s Magazine, or Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex
1774 The Friend, or Essays Instructive and Entertaining for Youth of Both Sexes
1775 The Matrimonial Magazine
1777 The Magazine a la Mode, or Fashionable Miscellany
1787 The Female Guardian By a Lady
1786-95 The New Lady’s Magazine, or Polite & Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex
1786-87 The Pharos: A collection of Periodical Essays
1793 The Female Mentor
1793 The Lady’s Miscellany By George Wright, Esq.
1794-1803 The Gallery of Fashion
1795 The Parlour Window By Mrs. Eustace and her sister
1796 The Parental Monitor By Mrs. Bonhote
1798-1828 The Lady’s Monthly Museum By a Society of Ladies
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