Contents

pp v-v

List of Illustrations

pp vi-vii

Acknowledgements

pp viii-xi

Abbreviations

pp xii-xiii

Dedication

pp xiv-xiv

Introduction: Time and Tide – Origins, Founders and Goals

pp 1-12

Part I - The Early Years, 1920–1928

pp 13-14

1 - A New Feminist Venture: Work, Professionalism and the Modern Woman

pp 15-40

2 - ‘The Weekly Crowd. By Chimaera’: Collective Identities and Radical Culture

pp 41-74

3 - Mediating Culture: Modernism, the Arts and the Woman Reader

pp 75-102

Part II - Expansion, 1928–1935

pp 103-104

4 - ‘The Courage to Advertise’: Cultural Tastemakers and ‘Journals of Opinion’

pp 105-140

5 - ‘A Common Platform’: Male Contributors and Cross-Gender Collaboration

pp 141-176

6 - ‘The Enjoyment of Literature’: Women Writers and the ‘Battle of the Brows’

pp 177-208

Part III - Reorientation, 1935–1939

pp 209-210

7 - A New Partnership: Art, Money and Religion

pp 211-240

8 - A ‘Free Pen’: Women Intellectuals and the Public Sphere

pp 241-272

Coda

pp 273-278

Bibliography

pp 279-295

Index

pp 296-306