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This book reconstructs the first two decades of Time and Tide (1920-1939) and explores the periodical's significance for an interwar generation of British women writers and readers. Unique in establishing itself as the only female-run intellectual weekly in the golden age of the weekly review, Time and Tide both challenged persistent prejudices against women's participation in public life and played an instrumental role in redefining women's gender roles and identities. Drawing on extensive new archival research Catherine Clay recovers the contributions to this magazine of both well-and lesser-known British women writers, editors, critics, and journalists and explores a cultural dialogue about literature, politics and the arts that took place beyond the parameters of modernist 'little magazines'. The book makes a major contribution to the history of women's writing and feminism in Britain between the wars.

This essay examines both the advertising content and a discourse about commercial culture in the influential feminist weekly Time and Tide from 1920 to 1936. In particular it traces the ways in which this magazine re-worked the periodical codes as it moved from the 'women's paper' category to a more general-audience weekly review. A key stage in this transition was Time and Tide's 'literary turn' which placed the magazine at the heart of the 'battle of the brows' in the early 1930s. From its inception Time and Tide had played an important role in the reception and promotion of so-called 'middlebrow' women writers; later the magazine loosened its identification with the 'feminine middlebrow' in order to secure its position within the 'high' sphere of serious political journalism. Far from an abandonment of its female readership and early feminist identity, however, I argue that Time and Tide's re-branding was in concert with wider cultural shifts in the construction of women's gendered identities.

Several young Russian and Ukrainian writers responded to the era of Great Reforms by taking up a new enterprise: literary ethnography. Their ethnographic expeditions and reports of 1856 to 1862 manifested new political, cultural and social scientific movements within the empire. They not only investigated obstacles to forging a diverse, multinational population into a common empire, they also called the attention of educated Russians and the Russian state to cultural legacies of the countryside. Some were deemed worthy of preservation; others seemed inconsistent with modern ways. They sought a new socio-political path for the public. In these ways they began to link the various peoples in the empire, the imperial state and educated Russia at a time of social and political disclocation.