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
FrequencyTwice a year
PublisherThe Sunday Mirror Company 1891–c. 1896
First issueFebruary 25, 1891
Final issue1944
CountryUnited States
Based inSt. Louis
LanguageEnglish

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

Edgar Lee Masters first published parts of his Spoon River Anthology in Reedy's Mirror over the course of 1914.[7]

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.[8] On February 28, 1895, the title was changed to The Mirror.[8]

On October 1896, it was bought back by James Campbell, and William Marion Reedy became the editor in December 1896.[8] 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.[8]

An offspring of that journal called The Mirror was revived from 1920 to 1944, edited first by Charles J. Finger[9] and finally by Barry Lewis.[8]

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. Philip Yannella, i Other Carl Sandburg, University Press of Mississippi, 1997, p. xx
  4. Max J. Putzel, The Man in the Mirror: William Marion Reedy and His Magazine, Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1998, pp. 256-259.
  5. Jean Gould, American Women Poets: Pioneers of Modern Poetry, New York City: Dodd Mead, 1980, p. 91
  6. Hoberg, Annegret (1997). Albert Bloch, the American Blue Rider. Munich: Prestel. p. 9.
  7. Edgar Lee Masters' Life and Career, Modern American Poetry, Univ. of Illinois.
  8. Max J. Puzel, The Man in the Mirror: William Marion Reedy and His Magazine, Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1998, pp. 299-300.
  9. Max J. Putzel, Genius of Place, Louisiana State University Press, 1985, p. 17.
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