Time and Tide (magazine)

Time and Tide was a British magazine with a focus on politics and literature, which appeared from 1920 to 1979 and from 1984 to 1986. The magazine was published weekly until 1970, monthly thereafter, and last quarter. Founder of the magazine was Margaret Mackworth, Viscountess Rhondda, a wealthy British feminist and members of the British aristocracy. Mackworth remained until her death in 1958, the owner of the magazine, and served from 1926 until her death as a publisher.

The magazine represented initially left - liberal views and was very much at a women's rights; the political setting of the sheet transformed later analogous to the political views of their respective owners. However, over the entire time of publication remained a focus of promoting literary talent. Among the authors who have published in Time and Tide include Nancy Astor, Margaret Bond Field, Vera Brittain, Margery Corbett Ashby, EM Delafield, Charlotte Despard, Crystal Eastman, Emma Goldman, Robert Graves, Charlotte Haldane, Mary Hamilton, Winifred Holtby, Storm Jameson, DH Lawrence, CS Lewis, FL Lucas, Rose Macaulay, Naomi Mitchison, Anthony Cronin, George Orwell, Emmeline Pankhurst, Eleanor Rathbone, Elizabeth Robins, Olive Schreiner, George Bernard Shaw, Ethel Smyth, Helena Swanwick, Ernst Toller, Rebecca West, Ellen Wilkinson, Charles Williams Margaret Wintringham and Virginia Woolf.

Was a particularly close collaboration with CS Lewis. In 1940 he first published his essay "The Necessity of Chivalry " ( The need for knightly virtues ). Thus began a 20 year relationship to the literary scholar and author, which led, among other things, that in 1954 Time and Tide one of the first meetings of the first part of JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings appeared.

Time and Tide did not sell particularly well and never exceeded a circulation of over 14,000 copies. The magazine survived until the end of the 1950s only because Margaret Mackworth subsidized the magazine from their personal assets. After her death, the ownership changed in rapid succession, each of the focus of the journal slightly altered and adapting the appearance of rhythm. Last owner in the years 1984 - 1986 was Sidgwick and Jackson, a division of Trust House Forte company and was issued at this time of quarterly by Alexander Chancellor. In 1986, the magazine was then set final.