Reedy's Mirror was a literary journal in St. Louis, Missouri in the fin de siècle era.Joseph Griffin, The Small Canvas: Introduction to Dreiser's Short Stories, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1985, p. 36 It billed itself "The Mid-West Weekly".Ronald Weber, The Midwestern Ascendancy in American Writing, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1992, p. 99.
Contributors included Silas Bent, Albert Bloch, Theodore Dreiser, Robert Frost, Vachel Lindsay, Harris Merton Lyon,Max J. Putzel, The Man in the Mirror: William Marion Reedy and His Magazine, Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1998, pp. 256-259. Ezra Pound, Carl Sandburg,Philip Yannella, i Other Carl Sandburg, University Press of Mississippi, 1997, p. xx Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Sara Teasdale.Jean Gould, American Women Poets: Pioneers of Modern Poetry, New York City: Dodd Mead, 1980, p. 91
Edgar Lee Masters first published parts of his Spoon River Anthology in Reedy's Mirror over the course of 1914.Edgar Lee Masters' Life and Career , Modern American Poetry, Univ. of Illinois.
Overview
The journal first appeared on February 25, 1891, under the title of the Sunday Mirror, published by The Sunday Mirror Company in St. Louis.Max J. Puzel, The Man in the Mirror: William Marion Reedy and His Magazine, Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1998, pp. 299-300. On February 28, 1895, the title was changed to The Mirror.
In October 1896, it was bought back by James Campbell, and William Marion Reedy became the editor in December 1896. He operated on a shoestring budget. The journal was renamed Reedy's Paper until May 30, 1913, when it became known as Reedy's Mirror.
An offspring of that journal called The Mirror was revived from 1920 to 1944, edited first by Charles J. FingerMax J. Putzel, Genius of Place, Louisiana State University Press, 1985, p. 17. and finally by Barry Lewis.
References
External links
Reedy's Mirror Digital Collection at St. Louis Public Library Internet Archive scans