Beth Palmer's Women's Authorship and Editorship in Victorian Culture is a welcome contribution to our understanding of the ways in which nineteenth-century women navigated the complex literary marketplace ... Palmer's clearly written and convincingly argued book brings these women and their savvy strategies for success back into the spotlight as important trailblazers in the mid-Victorian periodical press.

Jennifer Phegley, 19th Century Gender Studies

Palmer brings something new to this topic ... she has her own distinctive approach to sensationalism ... Informative and lucid, this book usefully complements what we already know about the sensation novel by persuasively arguing that it shares the multiplicity, polyvocality, and heterogeneity of the periodical press in which it was rooted. Palmer also enriches our understanding of the three writers she treats and of the history of female authorship.

Lyn Pykett, Review 19

Beth Palmer's study of women sensation writers who were also editors of monthly magazines is an important contribution to the history of Victorian fiction and print culture as well as to women's studies. ... For establishing the importance of these performative sensation author-editors in print and literary history, Palmer's new study is a welcome addition to scholarship.

Linda K. Hughes, Victorian Studies