{"product_id":"9780718897956","title":"Great Grandmama's Weekly : A Celebration of The Girl's Own Paper 1880-1901 by Wendy Forrester","description":"The Girl's Own Paper was first published in January 1880, and by the end of the nineteenth century, it was welcoming a quarter of a million readers to its weekly pages of advice on the concerns of the age; from playing hockey and keeping hens to curtseying at court and balancing the budget. Its Melodramatic serials and romances delighted readers from a future Queen of England, through the daughters of country houses and rectories, to housemaids in industrial cities, and from six-year-olds to grandmothers!A remarkable selection of extracts from The Girl's Own Paper 1880-1901, Great-Grandmama's Weekly illuminates the Victorian Era through these lively extracts and reveals how the concerns and experiences of the readers of The Girl's Own Paper continue to resonate today, exploring self-improvement, better pay, diet and cosmetics, cookery, crafts, and music. Wendy Forrester has curated a fascinating window on the era, allowing readers to see through the eyes of their great great grandmothers.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311872356725,"sku":"9780718897956","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780718897956.jpg?v=1762819718","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780718897956","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}