Description

This was a manuscript magazine circulating among members of the Gosling Society. The surviving issues (incomplete series, 1863-1867)  are owned by Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. They are described by Julia Courtney, ‘The Barnacle: A manuscript magazine of the 1860s’, in The Girl’s Own: Cultural Histories of the Anglo –American Girl 1830-1915 ed. Claudia Nelson and Lynne Vallone.  Arkansas and London, University of Georgia Press: 1994.