Times Literary Supplement

Literary/ Cultural Context Essay

Chris Baldick (Goldsmiths College, University of London)

Ed. by Chris Baldick, Goldsmiths College, University of London
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.08: English Writing and Culture of the early Twentieth Century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Chris Baldick (Goldsmiths College, University of London), Peter Childs (Newman University), Louise McDonald (Newman University)

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The Times Literary Supplement is a weekly review of books and arts published from London in newspaper form since 1902. As its name suggests, it was originally (1902-14) a free supplement, provided with the Friday issue of the daily newspaper The Times. Since March 1914 it has been on sale as a separate paper. In its early decades it was commonly referred to as the Times Lit. Supp., but from the 1950s the simpler abbreviation TLS became habitual, and that has been the paper’s masthead since 1969. A famous feature of TLS articles until 1974 was that they were, with some exceptions, anonymous. The exceptions included a few cases in which the paper was keen to advertise a reviewer’s …

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Citation: Baldick, Chris. "Times Literary Supplement". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 22 April 2021 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=19627, accessed 22 November 2024.]

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