ABSTRACT
The Lady’s Monthly Museum: Or, Polite Repository of Amusement and Instruction was launched by ‘A Society of Ladies’, in 1798 and eventually merged with The Lady’s Magazine in 1832. It was subtitled a ‘Polite Repository of Amusement and Instruction: Being an assemblage of whatever can tend to please the Fancy, interest the Mind, or exalt the Character of The British Fair’. The magazine aimed to appeal directly to women. Therefore, it contained articles on topics such as fashion, biographies of persons of interest, domestic duties, as well as essays and poems. The journal was one of the first to publish serialized stories before they were published as books.
