World’s Work was a pro-business New York monthly between 1900-1932. This single issue is presented as part of the 1910 Collection, a group of 24 magazines (links below) published in or around the year 1910, which has important implications for literary modernism.
World’s Work
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Virginia Woolf famously observed that “on or about December 1910, human character changed”—by which she meant to locate the shift to modernism at the end of the reign of King Edward VII and the beginning of the reign of King George V. To assist teachers and students studying this transitional moment, the MJP offers this collection of sample issues of British and American periodicals from 1910 and 1911, plus one from 1912. These samples are here mainly to provide a perspective on what was being thought, said, pictured, and advertised in both Britain and America at the moment when “human character changed.” Please note that, in addition to the issues in this special collection, there are other magazines from 1910 and 1911 in the main archive.
The following issues comprise the 1910 Collection:
- American Magazine, The (Vol. 70, No. 6: October, 1910)
- Atlantic Monthly, The (Vol. 106, No. 6: December, 1910)
- Bookman, The (Vol. 32, No. 3: November, 1910)
- Century Magazine, The (Vol. 83, No. 2: December, 1911)
- Collier’s Magazine (Vol. 46, No. 5: October 22, 1910)
- Cosmopolitan (Vol. 51, No. 1: June, 1911)
- Everybody’s Magazine (Vol. 24, No. 3: March, 1911)
- Forum, The (Vol. 44, No. 6: December, 1910)
- Good Housekeeping (Vol. 51, No. 2: August, 1910)
- Harper’s Magazine (Vol. 21, No. 6: January, 1911)
- Harper’s Weekly (Vol. 54, No. 2815: December 3, 1910)
- Ladies’ Home Journal, The (Vol. 28, No. 2: January 15, 1911)
- Lady’s Realm, The (Vol. 29, No. 171: January, 1911)
- Mask, The (Vol. 4, No. 1: July, 1911)
- Mother Earth (Vol. 6, No. 2: April, 1911)
- National Geographic Magazine, The (Vol. 21, No. 6: June, 1910)
- Review of Reviews, The (Vol. 45, No. 268: April, 1912)
- Saturday Evening Post, The (Vol. 183, No. 29: January 14, 1911)
- Smart Set, The (Vol. 30, No. 3: March, 1910)
- Strand Magazine, The (Vol. 40, No. 239: November, 1910)
- Weekly Tale-Teller, The (No. 88: January 6, 1911)
- Wide World, The (Vol. 25, No. 146: June, 1910)
- Windsor Magazine, The (Vol. 35, No. 204: December, 1911)
- World’s Work, The (February, 1911)