A well-researched, fully documented revisionist study. The study does impressive double duty in its recovery of archival material and the construction of 'Conversation' as a paradigm for examining women's editorial activity in the modernist period.
~American Literature
The first of its kind. An invaluable contribution.
~Annotated Bibliography for English Studies
Marek singles out the contributions of a fascinating contingent of literary figures.
~Booklist
Marek's focus is unique, and she includes a significant amount of previously unpublished material.
~Choice
An extremely interesting and informative history of seven modernist women editors.
~English Literature in Transition
A serious book and enjoyable reading. Only Marek's illuminating study has proved that women's contribution as editors of literary magazines of Anglo-American modernism was overwhelming. The whole book speaks eloquently and convincingly: women editors were catalysts and shapers of literary modernism.
~Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies
The new archival research here should prove useful for future scholarship.
~Journal of American History
An important study.... The overall evidence that women editors played an important role in promoting critical dialog, new ideas, and new literature cannot be denied.
~Library Journal
Marek's book renders visible through its overview the female networks and underpinnings of modernism; in that respect it is invaluable.
~Media History
A useful, highly readable guide to the achievements of the women under examination.
~Modernism
An informed and nuanced study of women catalyzing modernism by their work as editors. A serious addition to the new narratives of modernism, making a notable contribution to an evolving feminist scholarship.
~Rachel Blau DuPlessis
For readers interested not only in women's studies, but also publishing history and modern literature.
~Small Press Book Review
Marek constructs a powerful, alternative account of seven women who, in primary ways, shaped the aethetics of modernism and the modernist canon. She brings them alive—not as personalities or psyches, but as critical intelligences who had independent views about literature and used their magazines to express and test them.
~South Atlantic Review
Sticks a further and very substantial puncture in the rapidly deflating balloon of male modernist supremacy... A thoughtful and scrupulously researched study.
~The Review of English Studies
Offers detailed, carefully-documented, and absorbing accounts of behind-the-scenes dealings both with texts and their authors.
~Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature
Make[s] a very effective case both for the shaping influence of these women and for the continued study of the little magazine as a forcefield of literary modernism.
~Yearbook of English Studies
