[Vwoolf] INDEX TO THE “NATION AND [THE] ATHENAEUM” (N&A), 1921-1931

[Stuart N. Clarke]

Reminder below.

(Update: I have discovered some more 'marked files' of individual issues, 
but I haven't checked them all or incorporated any on the public DB.)

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INDEX TO THE “NATION AND [THE] ATHENAEUM” (N&A), 1921-1931


I have indexed the N&A and this is now available publicly.  You need to go
to here:

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(I have never used a Mac, but you might get somewhere by starting here:
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Once you have the Cardbox server installed, double-click on the icon on your
desktop, then click on File: Open. Then click on the Server tag. In the
large white box on the left, there should show: database.cardbox.net. Click
on that and on the View tag.  Several databases should appear in the larger
white box on the right, including ‘Virginia Woolf & Bloomsbury’ (also my
database) and ‘Index to the “Nation & Athenaeum”’. Highlight the one you
want and then click on Open. (The databases can only be accessed when you
are online.)



The first issue of the N&A was 19 Feb 1921 and the last was 21 Feb 1931. It
was called "The Nation and the Athenæum" until the issue of 3 Jul 1929 when
it became "The Nation and Athenæum". Each volume consists of 26 weekly
issues and runs either Apr-Sep or Oct-Mar. The first vol. (28) continues the
numbering of the "Nation" and consists of issues 21-26. The last vol. (48)
consists of 21 issues (1-21). Vol. 31 (Apr-Sep 1922) consists of 27 weekly
issues. Vol. 39 (Apr-2 Oct 1926) consists of 26 weekly issues, even though
no issue was published for 7 May, owing to the General Strike. In addition,
a separate Travel Number for Summer 1925 was published in May 1925. These
total 523 issues, and each upper first page is illustrated in the Database,
together with the "Questionnaire on Religious Belief", which was laid into
the issue of 21 Aug 1926, and the first page (221) of the Literary
Supplement of the issue of 9 Nov 1929, which advertises the Hogarth Press.

There are almost 18,000 entries, covering a similar number of pages,
including supplements. Articles and their authors are indexed together with
page numbers and issue numbers and dates. Attempts have been made to
identify the full(er) names of authors with only initials and pseudonyms.
Not indexed are most advertisements and company reports; however, all
Hogarth Press advertisements are indexed. Where the "marked files" (see
below) are available, it has been possible to include more information, such
as the authors of paragraphs under the headings of "Events of the Week",
"From Alpha to Omega", "Books in Brief", "Plays and Pictures" and "A
Literary Pocket-Book".

Attempts have been made to identify where articles were reprinted in other
newspapers and magazines and in books, but these are not comprehensive.

Where the plays of Shakespeare are mentioned, his name has been added if it
does not appear elsewhere on the record.

The order of the database runs from the first issue of the N&A on 19 Feb
1921, Vol. 28, No. 21 (indexed in the PP "field" as 2821) to the last on 21
Feb 1931, Vol. 48, No. 21 (indexed 4821), followed by the separate Travel
Number for Summer 1925 (indexed: Travel). Within each issue, the entries are
in no particular order.

"Marked files" are sets of printed issues held by the publishers themselves
and annotated by them to record the authors of unsigned contributions and
sometimes the amount paid for them. Unfortunately, only six volumes of the
N&A are known to be in existence, and these are held by City University,
London. They are:


35: 5 Apr-27 Sep 1924

37: 4 Apr-26 Sep 1925

38: 3 Oct 1925-27 Mar 1926

43: 7 Apr-29 Sep 1928

45: 6 Apr-28 Sep 1929

47: 5 Apr-27 Sep 1930


These vols have been consulted and the findings incorporated in the
database, usually indicated by {wavy brackets}.


Stuart N. Clarke