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dc.contributor.authorHackney, Fiona
dc.contributor.editorClay, Catherine
dc.contributor.editorDiCenzo, Maria
dc.contributor.editorGreen, Barbara
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-28T18:49:27Z
dc.date.available2018-06-28T18:49:27Z
dc.date.issued2017-12-31
dc.identifier.citationHackney, F. (2017) Woman Appeal. A New Rhetoric of Consumption: Women’s Domestic Magazines in the 1920s and 1930s, in: Clay, C., DiCenzo, M., Green, B. and Hackney, F. (Eds.), Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939: The Interwar Period. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 294-309.
dc.identifier.isbn9781474412537
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2436/621383
dc.descriptionThis is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Edinburgh University Press in Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939: The Interwar Period on 31/12/2017, available online: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-women-039-s-periodicals-and-print-culture-in-britain-1918-1939.html The accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version.en
dc.description.abstractWhen in 1926 two brothers from South Wales, William and Gomer Berry, struck a deal to acquire the entire business of the Amalgamated Press (AP), they took on the mantle of ‘Britain’s leading magazine publishing business,’ after the untimely death of AP owner and press magnate, Alfred Harmsworth (Lord Northcliffe) (Cox and Mowatt 2014: 60–3). The continued importance of magazines aimed at the female reader for the Berry’s empire was emphasised by William in his first speech as chairman, and in the coming years a host of new titles including Woman and Home, Woman’s Journal, Woman’s Companion, Wife and Home, Woman and Beauty and Home Journal were added to established staples such as Home Chat, Women’s Pictorial, Woman’s World and Woman’s Weekly. The launch of over fifty titles by AP and its rivals Newnes and Pearson, and Odhams Press, put women and their magazines at the forefront of popular publishing in the interwar years. By the end of the 1930s Odhams Press, under the direction of its dynamic managing director Julias Elias (Lord Southwood), had usurped the AP’s position with its innovative publication Woman, which brought the visual appeal of good quality colour printing to a tuppeny weekly, something that previously had only been available in expensive, high-class magazines. The interwar years witnessed expansion and consolidation, struggle and innovation as these publishing giants competed to command the lucrative market for women’s magazines.
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dc.language.isoEnglish
dc.publisherEdinburgh University Press
dc.relation.urlhttps://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-women-039-s-periodicals-and-print-culture-in-britain-1918-1939.html
dc.subjectBritish
dc.subjectperiodicals
dc.subjectinterwar
dc.subjectwomen's media
dc.titleWoman Appeal. A New Rhetoric of Consumption: Women’s Domestic Magazines in the 1920s and 1930s
dc.typeChapter in book
pubs.edition1
pubs.place-of-publicationEdinburgh, Scotland
rioxxterms.funderJisc
rioxxterms.licenseref.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2020-12-31
dc.source.booktitleWomen's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939: The Interwar Period
dc.source.beginpage294
dc.source.endpage310


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