The Feminist New Age
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The Feminist New Age
Contextualises modernist-era feminist writings of Beatrice Hastings and Katherine Mansfield in The New Age magazine.
Perhaps the best-known among modernist-era magazines, the British socialist weekly The New Age (edited by A. R. Orage from 1907 to 1922) is often mischaracterised as 'anti-feminist' or 'anti-suffragist'. Yet in its early years, this book argues, The New Age served as a crucial forum for feminist fiction and debate largely thanks to the contributions of Beatrice Hastings and Katherine Mansfield. Too often, Hastings is relegated to a biographical footnote, and Mansfield's early fiction, if read at all, is divorced from its periodical context. As the first book-length examination of the feminist content of The New Age and of these two writers, this study establishes Hastings' importance to early twentieth-century women's history and literary culture, while enriching our understanding of the feminist debates that shaped Mansfield's writings. Recovering periodical debates concerning marriage, motherhood, citizenship and sexuality, this book expands our sense of pre-war modern feminism.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781399561853
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 31 May 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Illustration: 23 black and white illustrations
Contributors:
- Edited by Lise Shapiro Sanders
- Contributions by Barbara Green
- Contributions by Lee Garver
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 156.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 328
About the Author
Carey Snyder (1968β2025) was Professor of English at Ohio University from 2001 to 2025. She was co-editor, with Faith Binckes, of Women, Periodicals, and Print Culture in Britain, 1890sβ1920s: The Modernist Period (2019); editor of H. G. Wellsβs Ann Veronica (2015); and author of British Fiction and Cross-Cultural Encounters: Ethnographic Modernism from Wells to Woolf (2008), as well as numerous articles and essays in the fields of feminist modernist studies and periodical studies. Lise Shapiro Sanders is Professor of English Literature and Cultural Studies at Hampshire College. She is the author of books and articles on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British literature, print media, silent cinema, and women's history, including Consuming Fantasies: Labor, Leisure, and the London Shopgirl, 1880β1920 and Reading for Pleasure: Working Women and the Popular Romance in Early Twentieth-Century Britain. She is a member of the Feminist Theory editorial collective. Barbara Green is Professor of English and Concurrent Faculty in Gender Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Feminist Periodicals and Daily Life: Women and Modernity in British Culture, Spectacular Confessions: Autobiography, Performative Activism, and the Sites of Suffrage, 1905-1938, and a co-editor of Womenβs Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939. She was the co-editor of the Journal of Modern Periodical Studies from 2015 through 2022. Lee Garver is Associate Professor of English at Butler University. He is the author of introductions to Volumes 8 and 19 of the Modernist Journals Project edition of The New Age and has published articles on a variety of modernists who wrote for the magazine, including Katherine Mansfield, Ezra Pound, T.E. Hulme, Edith Nesbit, and Florence Farr.
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