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Periodicals used or to be used as sources are as follows: Periodicals used or to be used as sources are as follows:
- +Literaire tijdschriften:
* [[Algemeen Letterlievend Maandschrift]] * [[Algemeen Letterlievend Maandschrift]]
* [[Algemene Konst- en Letterbode]] * [[Algemene Konst- en Letterbode]]
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* [[De Gids]] * [[De Gids]]
* [[De Nieuwe Gids]] * [[De Nieuwe Gids]]
-* [[Denker]] 
-* [[Europa]] 
* [[Leeskabinet]] * [[Leeskabinet]]
 +* [[Letterkundig Magazijn]]
* [[Nederland]] * [[Nederland]]
* [[Nederlandsche Bibliotheek]] * [[Nederlandsche Bibliotheek]]
 +* [[Recensent (ook der recensenten)]]
 +
 +Spectators and similar:
 +* [[De Denker]]
 +* [[De Huisvriend]]
* [[Nederlandsche Spectator]] * [[Nederlandsche Spectator]]
* [[Portefeuille]] * [[Portefeuille]]
-* [[Recensent (ook der recensenten)]] 
* [[Tijdspiegel]] * [[Tijdspiegel]]
-* [[Vaderlandsche Letteroefeningen (1761-1876)]] 
* [[Vriend des Vaderlands]] * [[Vriend des Vaderlands]]
 +
 +Periodicals publishing original texts:
 +* [[Europa]]
 +
 +General cultural press
 +* [[Vaderlandsche Letteroefeningen (1761-1876)]]
 +
 +

Revision as of 12:33, 9 August 2007

The notion of “press” is large and concerns all sorts of periodical publications – not only from highly specialized to very general, but also from the first seventeenth-century newspapers to late-nineteenth-century illustrated weeklies. In order to find reactions regarding women’s literary contributions, a certain number of reviews and magazines have been perused. They had been selected on the basis of different criteria: authority, possible relevance for women’s questions, success etc. Note that periodicals explicitly addressing a female public constitute a separate category.

Given the enormous volume of this material, selections had to be made. Whereas some of the journals have been perused completely (in general: starting from indexes), in other cases they have been approached by the intermediary of recent secondary literature or modern cataloguing of their contents. Finally, we have also selected a number of years to be considered particularly relevant because of the publication, in that same year, of significant works by women or of female or feminist periodicals. Thirteen reference years have been chosen: 1756, 1763, 1785, 1793, 1810, 1821, 1832, 1840, 1856, 1864, 1874, 1882, 1890. This will allow more thorough analysis of women’s reception in those specific years.

At the moment of entering data, for some of these journals we used paper copies, others were consulted in digital versions or online. It is clear that sooner or later more and more of these texts, and possibly all of them, will be available on the internet. We decided however not to wait till then: when internet versions did exist, we have had the benefit of it – establishing hyperlinks in the records of our database, for example –, but otherwise we provided references and informations about their presence in public libraries, in some exceptional cases even citations. (In order to dispose of the complete records of the database, a password is needed – see database WomenWriters).

It is well known that literary critique is the most currently consulted type of reception document. Often however, conclusions are drawn too easily: comparison to other reception types illustrates that – as we know very well for the modern situation – works praised in the periodical press are not always appreciated by the reading public. This “conflict” is of course relevant for research about non-canonized authors, in particular for those who enjoyed large success: many of whom were women.

The different periodicals considered up to now (i.e. April 2007) have delivered some 3000 records. This number will continue to expand: the present project is to be continued until September 2007.

Periodicals used or to be used as sources are as follows:

Literaire tijdschriften:

Spectators and similar:

Periodicals publishing original texts:

General cultural press



Bibliography:

  • M. Mathijsen and E. Wiskerke, ‘Bibliografie literaire tijdschrijften’ 1-4, in afleveringen gepubliceerd in De negentiende eeuw, 1977-1983.
  • G.J. Johannes, De barometer van de smaak. Tijdschrijften in Nederland 1770-1830. The Hague: SDU, 1995.


SvD, April 2007.

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