The Monthly Packet

Further Reading

Coleridge, Christabel. Charlotte Mary Yonge: Her Life and Letters. London: Macmillan, 1903.

Dennis, Barbara. Charlotte Yonge (1823-1901): Novelist of the Oxford Movement. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen, 1992.

“Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Younger Members of the English Church, The.” The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals, 1800-1900, Series 2. Ed. John S. North. North Waterloo Academic Press, 2003. Online edition.

Moruzi, Kristine. “Children’s Periodicals” in Routledge Handbook to Nineteenth-Century Periodicals and Newspapers, Eds. King, Andrew et al. New York: Routledge, 2016, 293-306.

––. “’The Inferiority of Women’: Complicating Charlotte Yonge’s Perception of Girlhood in The Monthly Packet,” in Antifeminism and the Victorian Novel: Rereading Nineteenth-Century Women Writers. Ed. Tamara S. Wagner. Amherst, NT: Cambria, 2009. 57-75.

—. “Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Younger Members of the Church of England (1851-1899).” Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland. Gen. Eds. Laurel Brake and Marysa Demoor. Gent and London: Academia Press and The British Library, 2009. 424.

—. “‘Never Read Anything That Can at All Unsettle Your Religious Faith’: Reading and Writing in The Monthly Packet.” Women’s Writing. Vol. 17 No. 2. August 2010, 288-304.

Mutch, Deborah. “Social Purpose Periodicals” in Routledge Handbook to Nineteenth-Century Periodicals and Newspapers, Eds. King, Andrew et al. New York: Routledge, 2016, 328-341.

Salmon, Edward. ”Books for Boys.” Juvenile Literature As It Is, London: Henry J. Drane, 1888, 12-32.

Sturrock, June. “Establishing Identity: Editorial Correspondence from the Early Years of The Monthly Packet.” Victorian Periodicals Review. Vol. 39 No. 3, Fall 2006, 266-279.

—. “Women, Work, and The Monthly Packet, 1861-73.” Nineteenth-Century Feminisms. Vol. 1, Fall-Winter 1999, 64-80.