Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 The ‘wire-puller’: L. T. Meade, Atalanta and the Development of the Short Story 25
6. 2 The Short Story Series of Annie S. Swan for The Woman at Home 44
7. 3 Hubert Crackanthorpe and The Albemarle: A Study of Contexts 65
8. 4 ‘It is astonishing how little literature has to show of the life of the poor’: Ford Madox Ford’s The English Review and D. H. Lawrence’s Early Short Fiction 86
9. 5 Rhythm and the Short Story 108
10. 6 For Love or Money: Popular 1920s Artist Stories in The Royal and The Strand 130
11. 7 Fiction for the Woman of To-day: The Modern Short Story in Eve 150
12. 8 Calling Parrots in Walter de la Mare and Elizabeth Bowen: A Communion in The London Mercury 169
13. 9 Virginia Woolf and Aldous Huxley in Good Housekeeping Magazine 187
14. 10 Virginia Woolf and the Magazines 208
15. 11 Horizon Magazine and the Wartime Short Story, 1940–1945 229
16. 12 John Lehmann’s War Effort: The Penguin New Writing (1940–1950) 250
17. 13 Voicing ‘the native tang of idiom’: Lagan Magazine, 1943–1946 273
18. 14 The Short Story in Wales (1937–1949): ‘Though we write in English, we are rooted in Wales’ 293
19. Bibliography 311
20. Notes on Contributors 328
21. Index 333