Work and the Nineteenth-Century Press:Living Work for Living People advances our knowledge of how our identities have become inextricably defined by work. This volume seeks to set a new research agenda for nineteenth-century interdisciplinary studies.

Andrew King is Professor of English at the University of Greenwich. He has published widely on nineteenth-century print media and popular reading, including two award-winning volumes with Alexis Easley and John Morton: The Routledge Handbook to Nineteenth-Century British Newspapers and Periodicals (2016) and Researching the Nineteenth-Century Press (2017). He is currently co-editor of Victorian Popular Fictions, the organ of the Victorian Popular Fiction Association (of which he was President 2019-22), and runs BLT19.co.uk, an open-access site dedicated to nineteenth-century Business, Labour, Trade and Temperance periodicals.

1. Introduction: Living Work

Andrew King

2. Information Put to Work: Provincial Newspapers as Publishers of Specialist Business and Work Information

Andrew Hobbs

3. Taxonomies and Procedures: the case of 'Trade and Professional Periodicals'

Andrew King

4. The Page as a Stage: Male Opera Singers and the Nineteenth-Century Press

Anna Maria Barry

5. 'Watch Case Secret Springer, Printer and Publisher:' The Many Work Identities of Richard Willoughby, Editor of the British Workwoman Magazine.

Deborah Canavan

6. 'In the Hospital + Out of the Hospital': Nurses and Nursing in Margaret Harkness's Periodical Publications

Flore Janssen

7. 'Higher than Snuff dealers': The Bookseller and the Formation of Trade Identity

Rachel Calder

8. Trade Custom and the Courtesy of Acknowledgement: The Practice of Copying in the late-Victorian Confectionery Trade Press

Stephan Pigeon

9. Agricultural Journals in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Elizabeth Tilley

10. The Limits of Work: the Early Years of the Bankers' Magazine (1844-1995) and the Banking Institute (1851-3)

Andrew King