Time and Tide: The Feminist and Cultural Politics of a Modern Magazine - Paperback

by Catherine Clay (Author)

The first in-depth study of the landmark modern feminist magazine, Time and Tide
This book reconstructs the first two decades of Time and Tide (1920-1939) and explores the periodical's significance for an interwar generation of British women writers and readers. Unique in establishing itself as the only female-run intellectual weekly in the golden age of the weekly review, Time and Tide both challenged persistent prejudices against women's participation in public life and played an instrumental role in redefining women's gender roles and identities. Drawing on extensive new archival research Catherine Clay recovers the contributions to this magazine of both well-and lesser-known British women writers, editors, critics, and journalists and explores a cultural dialogue about literature, politics and the arts that took place beyond the parameters of modernist 'little magazines'. The book makes a major contribution to the history of women's writing and feminism in Britain between the wars.
Key Features
The first in-depth study, based on extensive new archival research, of the richest two decades of this landmark feminist magazineShows how this female-run periodical secured a position among the leading general-audience intellectual weeklies of the day by tracing its close interdependence, and competition, within a changing set of interwar periodical structures and networksRecovers the contributions to this magazine of both well-known and undeservedly forgotten British women writers and criticsExplores a cultural dialogue about literature, politics and the arts that took place beyond the parameters of modernist 'little magazines' and mass-market periodicals

Front Jacket

'Time and Tide is an endlessly fascinating magazine. Provocative and forward-thinking, it influenced debate on topics ranging from work and leisure to modernist art. Cathy Clay's insightful, deeply knowledgeable study brings out the full importance of Time and Tide to British literary, political and feminist culture in the twentieth century. ' Faye Hammill, University of Glasgow The first in-depth study of the landmark modern feminist magazine, Time and Tide This book reconstructs the first two decades of Time and Tide (1920-1939) and explores the periodical's significance for an interwar generation of British women writers and readers. Unique in establishing itself as the only female-run intellectual weekly in the golden age of the weekly review, Time and Tide both challenged persistent prejudices against women's participation in public life and played an instrumental role in redefining women's gender roles and identities. Drawing on extensive new archival research, Catherine Clay recovers the contributions to this magazine of both well-and lesser-known British women writers, editors, critics and journalists and explores a cultural dialogue about literature, politics and the arts that took place beyond the parameters of modernist 'little magazines'. The book makes a major contribution to the history of women's writing and feminism in Britain between the wars. Catherine Clay is Senior Lecturer in English at Nottingham Trent University. She is the author of British Women Writers 1914-1945: Professional Work and Friendship and a co-editor of Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939: The Interwar Period in the series, The Edinburgh History of Women's Periodical Culture in Britain, Volume 4, published by Edinburgh University Press. Cover image: Parnassus in Academe, Winifred Holtby, Hilda Reid, Margaret Kennedy, Naomi Mitchison, Vera Brittain and Sylvia Thompson. Drawing by Paul Bloomfield, Time and Tide, Volume 9, Number 52, 28 December 1928 (c) The William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections, McMaster University Library Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-1818-8 Barcode

Author Biography

Catherine Clay is Senior Lecturer in English at Nottingham Trent University. She is author of British Women Writers 1914-1945: Professional Work and Friendship (Ashgate, 2006) and has published articles and book chapters on interwar women's writing and women's journalism. Her new monograph, Time and Tide: the Feminist and Cultural Politics of a Modern Magazine, is forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press.