‘WHAT WE MIGHT EXPECT – If the Highbrow Weeklies Advertized like the Patent Foods’: <i>Time and Tide</i>, Advertising, and the ‘Battle of the Brows’

Clay, Catherine

doi:10.3366/mod.2011.0005

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“…35 Home and Country were clearly commissioning serials by middlebrow writers well known for their contributions to higher-end periodicals and magazines, including Time and Tide. While Time and Tide, which courted a self-consciously modern and professional readership and self-defined as an 'overtly feminist review of politics and the arts', 36 appealed to a different type of middle-class woman to Home and Country, the overlap in their contributors is worth noting. It gives some traction to Catherine Clay's argument for greater attention to be paid to points of exchange and correspondence between feminist periodicals and the expanding women's magazine market, often read as mutually opposed.…”

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‘Mystery at the Lilacs’ (1938): Elizabeth Bowen's Thriller Serial for Home and Country

Jones

2018

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This article introduces a rediscovered 1938 serial by Elizabeth Bowen 'specially written' for Home and Country, the monthly organ of the National Federation of Women's Institutes. It situates 'Mystery at the Lilacs' within the periodical culture of 'Home and Country', paying particular attention to Bowen's engagement with the social and cultural debates that played out across its pages, and considers how Bowen's serial compares with her other contemporary literary projects. Far from being an aberration or curiosity, this serial overlaps thematically with Bowen's other interwar short stories. Self-reflexively concerned with the status of the writer in the community and preoccupied with the relationship between 'high' and popular culture, 'Mystery at the Lilacs' has much to tell us about Bowen's thinking about politics and culture in the interwar period.

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Section: Home and Countrymentioning

confidence: 99%