During the final decades of the nineteenth century, adolescent girls played a significant role in manuscript magazine productions amongst family, friends, and unrelated peers. With their enhanced leisure time and extensive education, many girls took pleasure in the pursuit of manuscript magazine production, treating the process with care and attention. Girls’ propensity to take up roles as editors in manuscript magazine projects, and to introduce competition pages and critics pages, attests to the seriousness with which they accorded them. We saw that girls of a literary mind made manuscript magazines and that these productions were often steeped in textual references. Adaptations of existing literature, whether histories, poetry or prose, were a key mode of expression for girls. This observation adds a new facet to previous research which has sought to uncover the extent of girls’ rich cultural lives during the later nineteenth century.