Time and Tide (magazine)

Defunct British magazine

Time and Tide

Time and Tide cover from 1965

Editor| Helen Archdale 1920,
Margaret, Lady Rhondda 1920–1958,
John Thompson, 1960s,
Alexander Chancellor 1980s
Categories| Feminist then Christian political and art magazine
Frequency| Weekly then monthly from 1970.
First issue| 1920; 105 years ago (1920)
Final issue| 1986; 39 years ago (1986)
Country| United Kingdom
Language| English
ISSN| 0040-7828

Time and Tide was a British weekly (and later monthly) political and literary review magazine founded by Margaret, Lady Rhondda, in 1920. It started as a supporter of left-wing and feminist causes and the mouthpiece of the feminist Six Point Group.[1] It later moved to the right along with the views of its owner. It always supported and published literary talent.

The first issue was published on 14 May 1920 and the editor was Helen Archdale.[2] Lady Rhondda took over as editor in 1926 and remained so until her death in 1958.[3]

Contributors included Nancy Astor, Vera Brittain,[2] John Brophy,[4] Anthony Cronin (literary editor of the magazine 1956–1958),[5] E. M. Delafield,[2] Crystal Eastman,[6] Leonora Eyles, Graham Greene,[4] Charlotte Haldane, Mary Hamilton,[2] J. M. Harvey,[7] Winifred Holtby, Cicely Hamilton, Octavia Wilberforce, Storm Jameson,[2] C. S. Lewis,[8] Wyndham Lewis,[9] Rose Macaulay, Naomi Mitchison,[2] Eric Newton,[10] George Orwell,[4] Elizabeth Robins,[2] George Bernard Shaw,[4] Helena Swanwick, Rebecca West, Ellen Wilkinson,[2] Charles Williams,[11] and Virginia Woolf.[2]

While there are no definite numbers confirming circulation of the magazine, in its first year it sold between 5,000 and 10,000 copies per week with an estimated increase to between 12,000 and 15,000 in the 1920s and 30,000 during World War II.[12]

In 1940, the article "The Necessity of Chivalry" by C. S. Lewis was published in Time and Tide,[8] beginning an association between Lewis and the magazine that would last 20 years and include more articles and reviews. In 1944, Lewis's articles "Democratic Education" and "The Parthenon and the Optative" were published, while "Hedonics" appeared in 1945. In 1946, the magazine published Lewis's articles "Different Tastes in Literature" and "Period Criticism". In 1954, Lewis published one of the first reviews of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring, and in 1955 his reviews of The Two Towers and The Return of the King were published. Lewis also frequently contributed poetry, including his poem "The Meteorite" (7 December 1946), which he used as the motto for his book Miracles (1947).

Another significant contributor was Lewis's friend and fellow Oxford "Inkling" Charles Williams, who contributed regularly from 1937 until he died in 1945. His important articles included a review of the "B" text of W. B. Yeats's A Vision (1937) and an exposition of his own Arthurian sequence of poems, Taliessin Through Logres (1938).

In 1956, Time and Tide and André Deutsch published a hardbound book collection of favourite writings titled Time & Tide Anthology, with an introduction by Rhondda and edited by Anthony Lejeune.

With Rhondda's death in 1958, it passed to the control of Rev Timothy Beaumont and editor John Thompson in March 1960. Under their supervision, it became a political news-magazine with a Christian flavour during the 1960s. It, however, continued to lose £600 a week and, in June 1962, he sold it to Brittain Publishing Company, where it was continued by W. J. Brittain. It became a monthly in 1970, and then ceased publication in 1979.

The Time and Tide title was later purchased by Sidgwick and Jackson, a subsidiary of the hotel group Trust House Forte. It was resurrected as a quarterly from 1984 to 1986,[13] edited from their global headquarters in London by Alexander Chancellor and propped up by a very wealthy peer, Lord Forte of Ripley.[14][15]

## References

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1. ^ Marina Camboni, Networking Women: Subjects, Places, Links Europe-America : Towards a Re-writing of Cultural History, 1890–1939. 2002. Storia e Letteratura, 2004 ISBN 8884981573 (pp. 234–5).
2. ^ a b c d e f g h i Clay, Catherine (2006). British women writers 1914–1945: professional work and friendship. Aldershot: Ashgate. pp. 9–11\. ISBN 0-7546-5093-6.
3. ^ "5 pioneers of women's rights you might not have heard of". The Independent. 8 March 2016. Archived from the original on 2 January 2024. Retrieved 4 February 2025.
4. ^ a b c d Clay, Catherine (2009). "On Not Forgetting 'the importance of everything else': Feminism, Modernism and Time and Tide (1920–1939)". Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism (7): 20–37\. ISSN 1369-9725. JSTOR 26920253. Retrieved 4 February 2025.
5. ^ "Anthony Cronin: poet, novelist, biographer and cultural commentator". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 4 December 2024. Retrieved 4 February 2025.
6. ^ Camboni, Marina (2004). Networking Women: Subjects, Places, Links Europe-America : Towards a Re-writing of Cultural History, 1890-1939 : Proceedings of the International Conference, Macerata, March 25-27, 2002. it:Edizioni di storia e letteratura. p. 237\. ISBN 978-88-8498-157-8.
7. ^ Stetz, Margaret D. (24 March 2022). 12 TIME AND TIDE Waited for Her: Rebecca West's Journalism in the 1920s. Edinburgh University Press. pp. 183–194\. doi:10.1515/9781474450652-020. ISBN 978-1-4744-5065-2. Retrieved 4 February 2025. `{{cite book}}`: `|website=` ignored (help)
8. ^ a b Heck, Joel D. (2011). "Mere Christianity in Embryo: 1940 in the Writings of C S. Lewis". The Lamp-Post of the Southern California C.S. Lewis Society. 33 (1): 3–14\. ISSN 1067-5531. JSTOR 45349818. Retrieved 4 February 2025.
9. ^ Einhaus, Ann-Marie (2019). "Wyndham Lewis, Cicely Hamilton, and Nazi Germany in Time and Tide". The Journal of Modern Periodical Studies. 10 (1–2): 76–97\. doi:10.5325/jmodeperistud.10.1-2.0076. ISSN 1947-6574. JSTOR 10.5325/jmodeperistud.10.1-2.0076. Retrieved 4 February 2025.1–2&rft.pages=76-97&rft.date=2019&rft.issn=1947-6574&rft_id=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/jmodeperistud.10.1-2.0076#id-name=JSTOR&rft_id=info:doi/10.5325/jmodeperistud.10.1-2.0076&rft.aulast=Einhaus&rft.aufirst=Ann-Marie&rft_id=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/jmodeperistud.10.1-2.0076&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Time+and+Tide+(magazine)" class="Z3988">
10. ^ Horowitz, Daniel (15 March 2012). Consuming Pleasures: Intellectuals and Popular Culture in the Postwar World. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 422\. ISBN 978-0-8122-0649-4.
11. ^ Topolewski, Nancy E. (1995). "Under the Mercy: An Introduction to the Life and Work of Charles Williams". VII: Journal of the Marion E. Wade Center. 12: 49–64\. ISSN 0271-3012. JSTOR 45296310. Retrieved 4 February 2025.
12. ^ Clay, Catherine (2018). Time and tide: the feminist and cultural politics of a modern magazine. Edinburgh: Edinburgh university press. p. 37\. ISBN 978-1-4744-1818-8.
13. ^ Time and Tide
14. ^ Chancellor, Alexander (27 February 2002). "Class Meltdown". Slate.com. Retrieved 29 May 2009.
15. ^ Sleeman, Elizabeth (2003). "Alexander Chancellor entry". The International Who's Who 2004 (67 ed.). Routledge (Europa Publications Limited). p. 297\. ISBN 1-85743-217-7.

## External links

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* The political magazine Time and Tide. Description at Spartacus Educational. 5 August 2002. Accessed June 2008.
* Time and Tide circulation figures at News magazines. Accessed June 2008.
* Serials at UKSG. Accessed June 2008.
* "Tim Beaumont (1928-2008)", Bear Alley, 12 April 2008. Accessed June 2008.
* Centenary project for the magazine. Accessed November 2020.