Fin-de-Siècle Youth Magazines and their Construction of Gendered Responses to Sickness

“…messages to young people about supposed ‘correct’ health responses offer insight into how people were expected to react to mass health events in fin-de-siècle Britain.” An example of a front page of The Girl’s Own Paper. A young woman is illustrated as reading to a young man lying ill in bed, emphasising women’s role asContinueContinue reading “Fin-de-Siècle Youth Magazines and their Construction of Gendered Responses to Sickness”