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Chapter 4 - Publishing and Periodicals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2019

By
Peter Marks
Edited by
James Smith
James Smith
Affiliation:
University of Durham
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Summary

The 1930s was a decade energised by crisis and hope. It ended badly on many fronts, including (seemingly) that of literature. Robert Hewison labels the years 1939 and 1940 the ‘grand slaughter of magazines’, noting that The Cornhill Magazine, Criterion, New Verse, Welsh Review, Voice of Scotland, and a range of other journals ‘all fell silent’. John Lehmann, a leading young periodical editor, recalled how ‘In the Christmas [1939] Number I announced the death of New Writing’, an innovative journal he had launched in 1936.

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The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the 1930s , pp. 63 - 80
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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