1 research outputs found
A mode(rni)st beginning ? The women of the Athenaeum 1890-1910
No full textThe Athenaeum, that "mirror of Victorian culture" (Leslie Marchand) was potentially just as effective a mirror of a budding modernism. Indeed, it was Katherine Mansfield's husband, John Middleton Murry, who edited the weekly during the last years of its existence when both Virginia Woolf and T. S. Eliot were listed as official contributors. In this paper I examine the contributions of the women who wrote for the Athenaeum round the turn of the century. They were unusually numerous, influential and unconventional. Especially that last character-istic, if apparent in their life and work, might justify seeing them as pioneers of modernism
