Article: Manliness and the Boys' Story Paper in Britain: A Cultural History, 1855-1940.(Book Review)

Kelly Boyd. Manliness and the Boys' Story Paper in Britain: A Cultural History, 1855-1940. New York: Palgrave. 2003. Pp. x, 274. $75.00. ISBN 0-333-64172-8.

In this lively, highly enjoyable work, Kelly Boyd traces the history of popular periodicals aimed at British adolescents. Unlike most other work on this topic, which has concentrated on elite publications like the Boy's Own Paper, Boyd's research focuses on lesser studied mass-market papers like Boys of England, the Gem, the Magnet, and the Rover, which had lower middle-class and working-class readerships. In fact, with weekly circulations of several hundred thousand, these papers dominated boys' imaginations ...

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