DISAPPEARING MAGAZINES


For an in-depth overview of magazine publishing in the transit years of the late 1800s and early 20th Century, two key references are Frank Greenop for his 1947 opus on magazine publishing in Australia, and David Reed's survey of the popular magazine in Britain and the United States.

In David Carter's work on what he calls the mystery of the missing middlebrow, he states that the 1920s saw the progressive disappearance of key magazines characteristic of the late 19th Century, when print had the cultural field pretty much to itself and when the readership could be conceived as inclusive of the whole market or public.

Other magazines like the Australian Journal and the Triad have much to tell us about the inter-colonial and trans-national trans-Tasman market for magazines and literary journalism. Joanna Wood, who was a resident scholar at the Turnbull last year, has work in press at the moment about the Triad and its editor C.N. Baeyertz.