Helen Carr
Helen Carr (9 May 1940–20 September 2025)[1] was a British editor, journalist and emeritus professor of English and comparative literature at Goldsmiths, University of London.[2]
Carr was one of the founders and editors of the feminist arts magazine Women's Review, which was first published in 1985 and ran for 21 monthly issues. The magazine focussed on reviews of books, but included a wide range of material, including an interview of Margaret Atwood by Emma Tennant, a review of Lubaina Himid's 1985 Thin Black Line exhibition, and a tribute to the Modernist poet Mina Loy.[3]
Several years after Women's Review ceased publication, Carr met with the OUP editorial director, Kim Scott Walywn and agreed to reinvent the magazine as an academic journal, Women: A Cultural Review.. The first issue appeared in 1990,[4] with Carr and Isobel Armstrong as lead editors.
Carr's book on the imagist movement was described by Ian Sansom in The Guardian as "the most comprehensive book on the subject ever written."[5]
Selected publications
[edit]- From My Guy to Sci-Fi: Genre and Women's Writing in the Postmodern World (London: Pandora Press, 1990. ISBN 978-0044404088)[2]
- Inventing the American Primitive: Politics, Gender and the Representation of Native American Literary Traditions, 1789–1936 (New York: Cork University Press, 1996, ISBN 978-1859180983)[6][7]
- The Verse Revolutionaries: Ezra Pound, H.D. and The Imagists (London: Jonathan Cape, 2009, ISBN 978-0746311639)[8]
- Jean Rhys (Writers & Their Work) (2nd revised edition, Northcote House Publishers Ltd, 2011; ISBN 978-0746311639)[2]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Helen Beatrice Carr, (9 May 1940 - 20 Sep 2025)". Funeral Guide. Retrieved 18 May 2026.
- 1 2 3 Murphy, Michael; Rees-Jones, Deryn, eds. (2007). Writing Liverpool: Essays and Interviews. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. p. viii. ISBN 9781781386859.
- ↑ Jolly, Margaretta (23 December 2021). "Purpose, Power and Profit in Feminist Publishing: An Introduction". Women: A Cultural Review. 32 (3–4). Taylor & Francis Group: 227–247. doi:10.1080/09574042.2021.1973698. Retrieved 18 May 2026.
- ↑ "Women: a cultural review, Volume 1, Issue 1 (1990)". Taylor & Francis Group. Retrieved 18 May 2026.
- ↑ Sansom, Ian (5 June 2009). "Hucksters, mavericks and visionaries". The Guardian.
- ↑ Carr, Helen (1996). Inventing the American primitive: politics, gender, and the representation of Native American literary traditions, 1789–1936. Cork, Ireland: Cork University Press. ISBN 978-1-85918-098-3. OCLC 35147352.
- ↑ Waters, Hazel (1 October 1997). "Inventing the American Primitive: politics, gender and the representation of Native American literary traditions, 1789–1936 by Helen Carr [review]". Race & Class. 39 (2): 83–85. doi:10.1177/030639689703900208. S2CID 143498237.
- ↑ Marsh, Alec (13 September 2014). "The Verse Revolutionaries: Ezra Pound, H.D. and the Imagists by Helen Carr [review]". William Carlos Williams Review. 31 (1): 98–103. doi:10.1353/wcw.2014.0007. S2CID 145661364.
- ↑ Jackson, Kevin (10 May 2009). "The Verse Revolutionaries: Ezra Pound, H.D. and the Imagists by Helen Carr [review]". The Sunday Times.
- ↑ "The Verse Revolutionaries, by Helen Carr [review]". The Independent. 14 June 2009. Archived from the original on 9 May 2022.
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