List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Series Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction, Alexis Easley 1. 'Collect and Simplify': Serial Miscellaneity and Extraction in the Early Nineteenth Century, Mark Turner 2. William Hazlitt and Celebrity Culture: Periodical Portraits in an Age of Public Intimacy, Chris Haffenden 3. Periodical as Memorial: Remembering Felicia Hemans in The New Monthly Magazine , 1835, Elizabeth Howard 4. 'Mirth' and 'Fun': The Comic Annual and the New Graphic Humour of the 1830s, Brian Maidment 5. Fauna, Flora and Illustrated Verse in Mary Howitt's Environmental Children's Poetry, Linda K. Hughes 6. Literature, Media and the 'Advertising System', Richard Salmon 7.

Keeping 'pace with the growing spirit of the times': The Women's Magazine in Transition, Jennie Batchelor 8. Beyond the Literary Annuals: Felicia Hemans, Letitia Elizabeth Landon and Periodical Poetry, Caley Ehnes 9. A Familiar Transition: Dinah Mulock Craik's Early Career in Periodicals, 1841-5, Helena Goodwyn 10. Paratextual Navigation: Positions of Witnessing in The Anti-Slavery Reporter , Sofia Huggins 11. The Media System of Charitable Visiting, Sara L. Maurer 12. Invincible Brothers: The Pen and the Press in The Compositors' Chronicle , 1840-43, Françoise Baillet Bibliography Index.