Mothering Daughters: Novels and the Politics of Family Romance, Frances Burney to Jane Austen (review)

2004 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 132-134
Author(s):  
Deborah D. Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Jane Austen ◽  
Frances Burney ◽  
Family Romance

‘Full of pretty stories’: Fiction in the Lady’s Magazine (1770–1832)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny DiPlacidi
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Jane Austen ◽  
Frances Burney ◽  
Charlotte Smith ◽  
Domestic Novel ◽  
Cultural Form ◽  
Derivative Work ◽  
Serial Fiction

Magazine fiction in eighteenth-century periodical publications such as the Lady’s Magazine has, on the whole, been disparaged as unoriginal, derivative work produced by amateurs. Jenny DiPlacidi’s essay robustly contests these claims by demonstrating how a range of sentimental, Gothic, epistolary and experimental short and serial fiction in the Magazine thematically, tonally and stylistically influenced the novels of canonical figures such as Jane Austen, Frances Burney and Charlotte Smith. Magazine fiction in periodicals such as the Lady’s Magazine (1770–1832) and Lady’s Monthly Museum (1798–1828), DiPlacidi argues, was, in the main, innovative and original. Far from being ephemeral, this fiction was an enduring and significant cultural form, which stylistically and thematically helped to shape the Romantic and domestic novel.

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