By Elizabeth Carolyn Miller
Drawing on under-studied periodicals and data, this booklet uncovers a mostly forgotten literary-political context. It seems to be on the broad debate in the radical press over tips to situate radical values inside of an evolving media ecology, debates that engaged probably the most well-known writers of the period (William Morris and George Bernard Shaw), a bunch of lesser-known figures (theosophical socialist and contraception reformer Annie Besant, homosexual rights pioneer Edward chippie, and proto-modernist editor Alfred Orage), and numerous nameless others.
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At the same time, radical writers and editors wanted to believe that workers, once enlightened, would “choose” a radical paper as a “reflection” of their views. For example, The Workers’ Herald: A Socialist Weekly, declared in its inaugural issue on 12 December 1891: A notable strike is being carried on in our midst, and the local press has no word of advice to give to the men . . the capitalist press remains silent. JUST BECAUSE IT IS THE CAPITALIST PRESS. . it is because of all this and much more that THE WORKERS’ HERALD has been called into existence.
And look at the careers of Introduction 27 contemporary radical novelists such as C. Allen Clarke and Margaret Harkness (“John Law”). Critics have read Shaw’s dramas, which he began to write in the 1890s and for which he is much better known, as novelistic or print centered in a way that was unprecedented in theater history, but less attention has been paid to the dramatic quality of his novels, which strive after the dialogic and public features of the theatrical sphere and strain against novelistic form.
By the Scottish socialist Bruce Glasier, complains that working-class readers only care about “whether the Duke of Clarence means to marry the daughter of an American millionaire; whether Mr. Gladstone prefers grain or lump sugar to his tea; . . or what players will be selected for the next international football team” (5). 21 At times some radical writers would blame readers for the conditions of mass print, as though the print marketplace was a straightforward reflection of their desires; but for the most part the radical press took the view that the capitalist press did not reflect public opinion but manufactured it.