Women, Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1890s-1920s: The Modernist Period

by Faith Binckes (Editor), Carey Snyder (Editor)

Overview

New perspectives on women’s contributions to periodical culture in the era of modernism
This collection highlights the contributions of women writers, editors and critics to periodical culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It explores women's role in shaping conversations about modernism and modernity across varied aesthetic and ideological registers, and foregrounds how such participation was shaped by a wide range of periodical genres. 
The essays focus on well-known publications and introduce those as yet obscure and understudied — including middlebrow and popular magazines, movement-based, radical papers, avant-garde titles and classic Little Magazines. Examining neglected figures and shining new light on familiar ones, the collection enriches our understanding of the role women played in the print culture of this transformative period.
Key Features
Helps recover neglected women writers and cast new light on canonical onesHighlights the geographical diversity of modern British print cultureEmphasises the interdisciplinary nature of modernism, including essays on modernist dance, music, cinema, drama and architecture Includes a section on social movement periodicals

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781399546805
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	02/01/2025
Series:	The Edinburgh History of Women's Periodical Culture in Britain
Pages:	488
Product dimensions:	6.77(w) x 9.61(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Dr Faith Binckes is Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Bath Spa University. She publishes on women’s writing, modernist literature, the visual arts and periodical culture. Her monograph Modernism, Magazines, and the British avant-garde: reading Rhythm was published by Oxford UniversityPress in 2010. In addition to co-editing the current volume, she is working on an edition of the later art writings of Wyndham Lewis for Oxford UniversityPress.

Dr Carey Snyder is an Associate Professor of English at Ohio University. She is the author of British Fiction and Cross-Cultural Encounters: Ethnographic Modernism from Wells to Woolf (Palgrave, 2008), and the editor of the Broadview Press edition of H. G. Wells’s Ann Veronica (2015). Her work in modernist periodical studies has been published in such venues as the Journal of Modern Periodical Studies; the collection, Brave New World: Texts and Contexts (Palgrave, 2016); and the volume Beatrice Hastings: On the Life and Work of a 20th Century Master (Pleiades Press, 2016).

Table of Contents

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgements

General Introduction: ‘The Kaleidoscope, the Mirror and the Magnifying Glass: Reading through the Lens of Periodical Culture’, Faith Binckes and Carey Snyder

I. LocationsIntroduction, Faith Binckes1. ‘Watch this space:’ Late Nineteenth-Century Women’s Periodicals in Ireland, Elizabeth Tilley 2. Opening Doors: Women and Print Media in Scotland, Margery McCulloch3. Marginal Places, Liminal Spaces: Welsh Women’s Modernist Writing and the English ‘Little Magazine’, Claire Flay-Petty4. Home and Homeland: English National Identity in the Women’s Magazines of Newnes and Pearson, Chris Mourant and Natasha Periyan

II. The Sister ArtsIntroduction, Faith Binckes5. ‘A theme with many variations’: Gertrude Hudson, musical criticism, and turn-of-the-century periodical culture, Charlotte Purkis6. Women, Drama and Print Culture 1890–1929, Elizabeth Wright7. Dance, Modernism, and the Female Critic in the New Age, Rhythm, and the Outlook, Susan Jones8. Mixing the Brows in Print: Iris Barry’s Film Criticism of the 1920s, Miranda Dunham-Hickman9. The Avant-Garde in the Drawing Room: Women, Writing and Architectural Modernism in Britain, Elizabeth Darling10. The Dialogic Magazine: Advertisements and Femininity in the Lady’s Realm, Annie Paige

III. Key Literary FiguresIntroduction, Carey Snyder11. ‘An Outpour of Ink’: From the ‘Young Rebecca’ to ‘the most important signature of these years’, Rebecca West 1911–1920, Kathryn Laing12. Time and Tide Waited for Her: Rebecca West’s Journalism in the 1920s, Margaret Stetz13. Writing Revolution: Dorothy Richardson’s Contributions to Early Twentieth-Century Periodicals, Scott McCracken and Elizabeth Pritchett14. Violet Hunt, Periodical Culture, and Emergent (Female) Modernisms, Louise Kane15. Dora Marsden and Anarchist Modernisms, Henry Mead16. Beatrice Hastings: Debating Suffrage in the New Age and Votes for Women, Carey Snyder17. ‘A kind of minute note-book, to be published some day’: Katherine Mansfield in the Adelphi, 1923-1924, Faith Binckes18. May Sinclair Magazine Writer: Exploring Modernisms through Diverse Journals, Laurel Forster

IV. Networks, circles, and marginsIntroduction, Carey Snyder19. On Poets and Publishing Networks: Charting the Careers of Charlotte Mew and Anna Wickham, Helen Southworth and Alina Oboza20. Women’s Poetry in the Modern British Magazines: A Case for Medium Reading, Bartholomew Brinkman21. Wheelpolitik: The Moral and Aesthetic Project of Edith Sitwell’s Wheels, 1916–1921, Melissa Bradshaw22. New Age Women’s Writing: Edith Nesbit, Florence Farr, and Nietzschean Socialist Modernism, Lee Garver23. Horror in the Wax Museum: Edith Nesbit’s ‘The Power of Darkness’ and the Strand Magazine, Anthony Camara

V. Social MovementsIntroduction, Carey Snyder24. Women, Periodicals, and Esotericism in Modernist-Era Print Culture, Mark Morrisson25. Lysistrata on the Home Front: Locating Women’s Reproductive Bodies in the Birth Strike Rhetoric of the Malthusian during World War One, Layne Parish Craig26. A Column of Our Own: Women’s Columns in Socialist Newspapers, Elizabeth Miller27. Prayer Warriors: Denominational Feminism, the Vote, and the Church League for Women’s Suffrage Monthly Paper, Krista Lysack

AppendixNotes on ContributorsIndex