Time and Tide

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.

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. Catherine 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.

• Introduction: Time and Tide – Origins, Founders and AimsPart I: The Early Years, 1920–19281. A New Feminist Venture: Work, Professionalism, and the Modern Woman2. ‘The Weekly Crowd. By Chimaera’: Collective Identities and Radical Culture3. Mediating Culture: Modernism, the Arts, and the Woman ReaderPart II: Expansion, 1928–19354. ‘The Courage to Advertise’: Cultural Tastemakers and ‘Journals of Opinion’5. ‘A Common Platform’: Male Contributors and Cross-Gender Collaboration6. ‘The Enjoyment of Literature’: Women Writers and the ‘Battle of the Brows’Part III: Reorientation, 1935–19397. A New Partnership: Art, Money, and Religion8. A ‘Free Pen’: Women Intellectuals and the Public SphereWorks CitedIndex