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Endnotes

1. Jennifer Phegley emphasises Belgravia’s motivation to protect not only the sensation genre, but also women’s intellectual independence more generally (149-151). Amy Ahearn interrogates Cather’s role at McClure’s in her dissertation “Engaging with the Political: Willa Cather, “McClure's Magazine”, and the Production of National Rhetoric."

2. Newton xvii; Showalter 237.

3. "Domestic Individualism" and its relationship to gendered dynamics and expectations is interrogated by Dorri Beam in Style, Gender, and Fantasy in Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Writing (2010) and Gillian Brown in Domestic Individualism: Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century America (1990).

4. Waldroup 13.

5. Sanchez 327, 316.

6. Letter from Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson to Margaret Stevenson. 1881.015. RLS Museum.

7. Jolly 39, 49.

Works Cited

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Beam, Dorri. Style, Gender, and Fantasy in Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Writing. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Brown, Gillian. Domestic Individualism: Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century America. University of California Press, 1992.

Newton, Michael Stuart. Victorian Fairy Tales. Oxford University Press, 2015.

Phegley, Jennifer. “‘Henceforward I Refuse to Bow the Knee to Their Narrow Rule’: Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Belgravia Magazine, Women Readers, and Literary Valuation.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts, vol. 26, no. 2, 2004, pp. 149–71. Taylor and Francis+NEJM.

Sanchez, Nellie Van de Grift. The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson. C. Scribner’s Sons, 1920.

Showalter, Elaine. A Jury of Her Peers: Celebrating American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx. Vintage, 2009.

Stevenson, Fanny Van de Grift. Letter to Margaret Stevenson. 20 May 1885. Robert Louis Stevenson Museum, St. Helena, Margaret Stevenson Box, 1885.010.

---. The Cruise of the Janet Nichol Among the South Sea Islands: A Diary by Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson. Edited by Roslyn Jolly, UNSW Press, 2003.

Waldroup, Heather. “Picturing Pleasure: Fanny Stevenson and Beatrice Grimshaw in the Pacific Islands.” Women’s History Review, vol. 18, no. 1, 2009, pp. 1–22.