The Nation and Athenaeum, or simplyThe Nation, was aUnited Kingdom political weekly newspaper with aLiberal/Labour viewpoint. It was formed in 1921 from the merger of theAthenaeum, a literary magazine published in London since 1828,[3] and the smaller and newerNation, edited byHenry William Massingham.[4]
| Founder(s) | Richard Steele[1] |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1921 |
| Ceased publication | 1931(absorbed into the Labour weekly theNew Statesman)[2] |
| OCLC number | 715567055 |
The enterprise was purchased by a group led by the economistJohn Maynard Keynes in 1923.[5] From then on, it carried numerous articles by Keynes.[6]
From 1923 to 1930, the editor was Liberal economistHubert Douglas Henderson,[7] and the literary editor wasLeonard Woolf, who would help impecunious young authors, includingRobert Graves andE. M. Forster he knew through theHogarth Press by commissioning them to write reviews and articles; there were others, such asEdwin Muir who had come to his attention at the Nation and whose work he would publish at Hogarth.
Other contributors includedEdmund Blunden,H. E. Bates,H. N. Brailsford,J. A. Hobson,Harold Laski,David Garnett,Aldous Huxley (under the pseudonym "Autolux"),Charlotte Mew,Edith Sitwell,T.S. Eliot,Virginia Woolf, andG. D. H. Cole.[8]
In 1931, it was absorbed into the Labour weekly theNew Statesman,[9] which was known as theNew Statesman and Nation until 1964.[8][10]
References
edit- ^Sir Richard Steele (1897).Selections from the Works of Sir Richard Steele. Ginn. pp. 14–.
- ^The nation and the Athenaeum. (Journal, magazine, 1921).WorldCat.OCLC 715567055.
- ^Andreas Fischer; Martin Heusser; Thomas Herrmann (1997).Aspects of Modernism: Studies in Honour of Max Nänny. Gunter Narr Verlag. pp. 132–.ISBN 978-3-8233-5180-1.
- ^Collini, Stefan (2006).Absent Minds - Intellectuals in Britain. Oxford: OUP. p. 91.ISBN 0199291055.
- ^David Felix (19 October 2017).Biography of an Idea: John Maynard Keynes and the General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. Taylor & Francis. pp. 43–.ISBN 978-1-351-29422-5.
- ^"John Maynard Keynes, 1883-1946".The New School. Archived fromthe original on 21 March 2009. Retrieved12 September 2010.
- ^‘HENDERSON, Sir Hubert Douglas’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014accessed 26 Sept 2015
- ^ab"About New Statesman". NewStatesman. Retrieved12 September 2010.
- ^M. Ascari (10 January 2014).Cinema and the Imagination in Katherine Mansfield's Writing. Springer. pp. 40–.ISBN 978-1-137-40036-9.
- ^Edward Hyams,The New Statesman (1963), p. 119.
Further reading
edit- Dickens, Elizabeth. "'Permanent Books': The Reviewing and Advertising of Books in the Nation and Athenaeum."Journal of Modern Periodical Studies 2.2 (2011): 165–184.
External links
edit- Origins ofThe Nation:Link
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