Eleanor Reed’s Woman’s Weekly and Lower-Middle-Class Domestic Culture in Britain 1918–1958 is “the first ever book-length study of a single British domestic magazine” (4). Despite being one of the most popularly recognizable women’s magazines in Britain, the Woman’s Weekly archive has remained remarkably unexplored until now—a sign of the times perhaps. Scholarly interest in women’s magazines, particularly in twentieth-century women’s periodicals, has continued to grow over the last decade (4). Reed references monographs by Laurel Forster, Catriona Clear, Alice Wood, and Catherine Clay, as well as recent essay collections devoted to women’s periodicals, including those edited by Faith Binckes and Carey Snyder, Catherine Clay, Maria DiCenzo, Barbara Green and Fiona Hackney, and Laurel Forster and Joanne Hollows, that “usefully position” (5) Woman’s Weekly, “an icon of twentieth-century British domestic culture,” (1) within the women’s magazine market and the wider scholarly field.

Reed’s book engages periodical and literary studies, as...

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