Histories for the Many

Doris Lechner is research officer at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and co-founder of the Book History and Print Culture Network (D-A-CH).

»The main value of [the] book is as an empirical case study, demonstrating the large quantity and complex nature of historical writing in popular Victorian magazines, well as the men and women who wrote such material. She presents a convincing case for the inclusion of popular family magazines in the historiography of the nineteenth century.« Andrew Hobbs, H-Net, 31.01.2023 »An innovative study into an intriguing yet underexplored aspect of nineteenth-century journalism.« Samuel Saunders, Journal of European Periodical Studies, 3/2 (2018) Besprochen in: Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 26.10.2017, Janet G. Casey Victorian Periodicals Review, 50/4 (2017), Ruth M. McAdams Victorian Studies, 60/3 (2019), Jennifer Phegley Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, 58/4 (2019), Andrea Henderson

»The main value of [the] book is as an empirical case study, demonstrating the large quantity and complex nature of historical writing in popular Victorian magazines, well as the men and women who wrote such material. She presents a convincing case for the inclusion of popular family magazines in the historiography of the nineteenth century.«
Andrew Hobbs, H-Net, 31.01.2023

»An innovative study into an intriguing yet underexplored aspect of nineteenth-century journalism.«
Samuel Saunders, Journal of European Periodical Studies, 3/2 (2018)

Besprochen in:
Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 26.10.2017, Janet G. Casey
Victorian Periodicals Review, 50/4 (2017), Ruth M. McAdams
Victorian Studies, 60/3 (2019), Jennifer Phegley
Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, 58/4 (2019), Andrea Henderson