As mass media burgeoned in the years between the first and second world wars, so did another phenomenon—celebrity. Beginning in Hollywood with the studio-orch
This collection traces the unique experiences of nineteenth-century women writers within a celebrity culture that was intimately connected to the expansion of p
This book situates the single woman within the evolving landscape of modernity, examining how she negotiated rural and urban worlds, explored domestic and bohem
This book explores responses to the strangeness and pleasures of modernism and modernity in four commercial British women’s magazines of the interwar period.