This section brings you articles focusing on the activities and achievements of Victorian women - notable women, "firsts," and Demorest's roundups of "What Women Are Doing" throughout the world.

What Women Are Doing (Demorest)

Demorest Magazine offered a monthly feature titled "What Women Are Doing" - a roundup of women's achievements around the world. Unfortunately, we don't have every month of every year listed below, but this series still provides an amazing look at the world of women's work in the late 19th century.

1879 • 1880 • 1882 • 1884 • 1885 • 1886 • 1887 • 1888 • 1889 • 1894 • 1896

A Century of Female Novelists, by Emily J. Mackintosh (Peterson's, 1883)

Madame D'Arblay, Anna Maria Porter, Jane Porter, Mrs. Inchbald, Jane Austen, Mrs. Opie, Mrs. Charles Gore, Mrs. Norton, Miss Gaskell, Charlotte Bronte, and George Eliot.

The Industrial Exposition at Boston, and the Women's Department of it (Demorest, 1884)

A look at some of the scientific and domestic inventions of women at the Exposition, along with the "chamber of horrors" - a display of hair flowers and other fancy work "too dreadful for the modern imagination to contemplate."

A Group of Notable Women (Demorest, 1888)

A group photo of 28 women of the First International Council of Women, including Clara Barton and Susan B. Anthony.

Women in American Literature, by Helen Gray Cone (Century Magazine, 1890B)

Founded by a Woman, by Maude Haywood (Ladies' Home Journal, 1892)

Cincinnati’s Rookwood Pottery.

A Law Firm of Women, by Laura Grover Smith (Ladies' Home Journal, 1892)

Some Happy Spinsters (Girl's Own Paper, 1892)

A look at the achievements of a number of well-known, unmarried women, including Anna Sewell (author of Black Beauty).

Famous Women Artists of the World, by W. Shaw Sparrow (Girl's Own Paper, 1894)

Heads of the Professions: Women Artists (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1894)

Women and Girls as Inventors and Discoverers, by S.F.A. Caulfeild (Girl's Own Paper, 1895)

The Strides of Women, by Norma Lorimer (Girl's Own Paper, 1898)

A summary of women's progress to date, including an overview of important women of the day.

LaFronde: The First Daily Paper Produced by Women for Women, by Frederick Dolman (The Strand, 1900A)

A Parisian paper launched in 1897.

The First Lady Barrister (Girl's Own Paper, 1901)

Short news item about Mlle. Chauvin, the first female barrister in France.

• See also People: Noteworthy Victorian Women