Critical Times (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Derwent May
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Literary history
- Time of Work: 1902-2002
- Setting: Printing House Square, London
- Principal Characters: Bruce Richmond, Charles Frederic Moberly Bell, Alfred Harmsworth, Lord Northcliffe, David L. Murray, Stanley Morison, Alan Pryce-Jones, Arthur Crook, John Gross, Jeremy Treglown, Ferdinand Mount
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Journalism or journalists, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Literature, Books, England or English people, London, Publishing or publishers, Reading, Great Britain
- Locales: London, England
In 2002, the TLS celebrated its hundredth birthday. According to legend, it was envisioned as a temporary publication to carry book reviews displaced from the Times by Parliamentary reports, but when the Parliamentary session ended, no one remembered to discontinue it. In fact, May demonstrates that the Literary Supplement (as it was known for decades) had been intended by Charles Frederic Moberly Bell, the Times’s manager, as a replacement for Literature, which had been losing money and which the Times had sold to the Academy early in...
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