Times Literary Supplement

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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Date of occurrence 1902

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England (Location)

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The Times Literary Supplement

is a weekly review of books and arts published from London in newspaper form since 1902. As its name suggests, it was originally (1902-14) a free supplement, provided with the Friday issue of the daily newspaper

The Times.

Since March 1914 it has been on sale as a separate paper. In its early decades it was commonly referred to as the

Times Lit. Supp.

, but from the 1950s the simpler abbreviation

TLS

became habitual, and that has been the paper’s masthead since 1969. A famous feature of

TLS

articles until 1974 was that they were, with some exceptions, anonymous. The exceptions included a few cases in which the paper was keen to advertise a reviewer’s special eminence – as in the byline given to Henry James for his review-article “The Younger…

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Citation: Baldick, Chris. "Times Literary Supplement". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 22 April 2021 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=19627, accessed 25 April 2024.]

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