Reedy's Mirror

Reedy's Mirror was a literary journal in St. Louis, Missouri in the fin de siècle era.[1] It billed itself "The Mid-West Weekly."[2]

Reedy's Mirror
Editor-in-chiefWilliam Marion Reedy 1896–c. 1920
Categoriesliterary journal
Frequencyweekly, later monthly
PublisherThe Sunday Mirror Company 1891–c. 1896
First issueFebruary 25, 1891
Final issue1944
CountryUnited States
Based inSt. Louis
LanguageEnglish

Contributors included Edna St. Vincent Millay,[3] Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg,[4] Ezra Pound, Vachel Lindsay,[1] Harris Merton Lyon,[5] Sara Teasdale,[6] Albert Bloch[7] and Theodore Dreiser.[1]

Edgar Lee Masters first published parts of his Spoon River Anthology in Reedy's Mirror over the course of 1914.[8]

Overview

The journal first appeared on February 25, 1891, under the title of the Sunday Mirror, published by The Sunday Mirror Company in St. Louis.[9] On February 28, 1895, the title was changed to The Mirror.[9]

In October 1896, it was bought back by James Campbell, and William Marion Reedy became the editor in December 1896.[9] He operated on a shoestring budget.[1] The journal was renamed Reedy's Paper until May 30, 1913, when it became known as Reedy's Mirror.[9]

An offspring of that journal called The Mirror was revived from 1920 to 1944, edited first by Charles J. Finger[10] and finally by Barry Lewis.[9]

References
  1. Joseph Griffin, The Small Canvas: Introduction to Dreiser's Short Stories, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1985, p. 36
  2. Ronald Weber, The Midwestern Ascendancy in American Writing, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1992, p. 99.
  3. Jackson, Timothy F. (2016). Selected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay: An Annotated Edition. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 55. ISBN 9780300213966.
  4. Philip Yannella, i Other Carl Sandburg, University Press of Mississippi, 1997, p. xx
  5. Max J. Putzel, The Man in the Mirror: William Marion Reedy and His Magazine, Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1998, pp. 256-259.
  6. Jean Gould, American Women Poets: Pioneers of Modern Poetry, New York City: Dodd Mead, 1980, p. 91
  7. Hoberg, Annegret (1997). Albert Bloch, the American Blue Rider. Munich: Prestel. p. 9.
  8. Edgar Lee Masters' Life and Career, Modern American Poetry, Univ. of Illinois.
  9. Max J. Puzel, The Man in the Mirror: William Marion Reedy and His Magazine, Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1998, pp. 299-300.
  10. Max J. Putzel, Genius of Place, Louisiana State University Press, 1985, p. 17.
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