New Writing

Literary/ Cultural Context Essay

Chris Baldick (Goldsmiths College, University of London)

Ed. by Chris Baldick, Goldsmiths College, University of London
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.08: English Writing and Culture of the early Twentieth Century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Chris Baldick (Goldsmiths College, University of London), Peter Childs (Birmingham Newman University), Louise McDonald (Birmingham Newman University), Andrew Radford (University of Glasgow)

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Periodicals

Dates

Date of occurrence 1936-03-1950

Places

England (Location)

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New Writing

was a periodical literary miscellany established in 1936 and edited by John Lehmann (1907-87) through various changes of identity, publisher and title: it became

Folios of New Writing

(1940-41), then after a merger

New Writing and Daylight

(1942-46), and continued itself in popular format as

Penguin New Writing

(1940-50). Launched in the period of the Spanish Civil War as a non-doctrinaire and more strictly literary alternative to the Communist

Left Review

(1934-38), it evolved into one of the two major British literary magazines of the 1940s (alongside Cyril Connolly’s

Horizon

, 1939-49), publishing work by several leading writers including Christopher Isherwood, George Orwell, Virginia Woolf, Stephen Spender, E. M. Forster, V. S. Pritchett, Hugh MacDiarmid, and Henry Green.…

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Citation: Baldick, Chris. "New Writing". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 17 March 2021 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=19624, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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