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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.
Contents
List of Figures
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Editor's Note
Introduction
Part One: Debating Feminism in The New Age, by Carey Snyder
Part Two: The New Age and Modern Periodical Studies, by Lee Garver
Part Three: Feminism and Modern Periodical Studies, by Barbara Green
1. Pseudonyms, Feminism, and Gendered Self-Fashioning
2. Courting Controversy with Correspondence: Hastings's Engagement with the Feminist Press
3. Fiction as Polemic: Blasting the Outrage of Sexual Ignorance and Compulsory Maternity
4. Katherine Mansfield and the New Age School of Satire
5. White Slave Narratives and Women in the Public Sphere
Afterword
Appendix
Bibliography
