ABSTRACT
ARTICLES: I.-Fifty Years Ago. !I.-Queens of the Early
N 0. CCLXXVIL-APRIL 15TH, 1908.
To describe the ENGLISHWOMAN'S REVIEW as the first women's paper would certainly be claiming too much; was not Oliver Goldsmith the Editor of the Ladies' Magazine? And the publication of this Revjew was first suggested by the sight of an earlier periodica.l. Madame Belloc has related how, in 1856, she saw in the window of a small shop in Edinburgh, .a num~ of the Waverley Journal, a paper purporting to be edited by women, how she entered the shop, bought the paper, which she found to be "of a very harmless hut inefficient sort," and forthwith entered into negotiations with the proprietor, with the view of acquiring and improving it. These negotiations fell through, out the idea was not forgotten, and in conjunction with Miss Barbara Leigh Smith (afterwards Mada.me Bodicbon), and aided by the counsels of Mrs. Jameson, the English Woman's Journal was started,. the first number being issued on March 1, 1858.
