Periodical publications, particularly magazines, were venues of major social significance through which women readers and writers created, critiqued, and enjoyed the Romantic culture of letters. Notable women writers who did work for periodical publishers include Anna Letitia Barbauld, Hannah Cowley, Catherine Hutton, and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. While much attention is rightly given to publications that self-consciously marked themselves as women’s magazines, and which had emerged as a form only a little before the rise of Romanticism, it is also true that a feminized rhetoric, sometimes characterized as “fair-sexing,” had been present within Anglophone periodical culture from the seventeenth century onwards. The ambitious, often quite long-lasting and wide-reaching magazine enterprises that arose at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries did not so much open the door to women as refurbish that door into a better-lit but still unpredictable entrance towards public-facing, sometimes fully professional, literary work.