ncse: The English Woman's Journal, 1858-1864

Contains data for The English Woman’s Journal derived from the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (ncse). The English Woman's Journal is one of the most influential women's periodicals from the period. A miscellaneous monthly magazine, it engaged with issues ranging from rights within marriage to suitable work for women while also publishing correspondence and literary reviews. Ncse was a free, online edition of six nineteenth-century periodicals and newspapers, developed in a collaboration between the British Library, King’s College London and Birkbeck, University of London. Ncse was first published in 2008 with a second edition in 2018. The English Woman’s Journal was published in ncse alongside five other publications: The Monthly Repository (1806-1837); The Northern Star (1838-1852); The Leader (1850-1860); The Tomahawk (1867-1870); The Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890).

Within this dataset are two versions of the journal. The first contains an archive of every issue of the journal, including OCR transcripts, images of individual items, PDFs of individual issues, accompanying metadata, and an XML table of contents. The second is a simple set of folders containing PDFs of every issue of the journal. The first archive is more suited to digital re-use; the second can be downloaded and browsed more readily by non-expert users. Documentation within the dataset sets out the content in more detail.