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I would be remiss if i did not close by saying this ends the opening of the 99th annual association and we will be back next year for the 100th. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] you are watching American History tv all weekend, every weekend on cspan3. To join the conversation, like us on facebook. American history tv traveled to the library of congress in washington, d. C. , established in the year 2000 and endowed by a philanthropist. To center hosts 100 scholars help pursue their research interests. We speak with one of their 2014 fellows next. Joining us on American History tv is sophie oliver, a phd candidate from Royal Holloway University of london. What brought you here . High. Doing a phd at the university of london. The arts and Humanities Research council run this scheme where they send scholars to the kludgy center. I realize what a great resource the library of congress was. I was particularly interested to magazines,they had 1920s womens magazines that i had read about and was interesting finding more about. Tell me about gina barnes. Gina barnes is one of the subjects of my phd. I work on the interwar period, modernism. To find the interwar period. 1937. 17 and aging of barnes died in 1982. She was associated particularly eriod,is modernist p experimentalist writers. She was a journalist to start with. Working from 1913 to the mid1920s. Around the mid1920s, she started publishing journalism in charm. E some of her articles are published in the anthology of her work. I wanted to look into this context of charm night visiting. It sounded like a unique fashion magazine. I found one scholarly article written in the 1980s, but there wasnt anything else. More and more people are doing work on magazines in the context that writers in this period were publishing their work. I thought i would take a look. Did she write under her own name . No, she wrote under a pseudonym. Gina barnes she used a lot for journalism. The first article she wrote for charm was done by gina barnes. Fair, she used the pseudonym lidia steptoe. Theres extensive bibliography done of her work. I could see there were 12 articles in total she had written for charm, but only two of them had been anthologized. The others are made available in her archives. It is interesting to not only look at the articles themselves, but the context around them, the adverts, what the magazine is like to learn more about what her audience was. What was her audience like . Very different from other audiences she had. She was a journalist from 1913 writing for the mass market, big newspapers in new york. She was used to writing quite popular newspaper writing. Even in her less literary work, shes experimenting with different voices or styles and registers. The audience is a massmarket audience. It is a magazine published by a Department Store in new jersey, 85,000was distributed to account holders in the state of new jersey. It was sold elsewhere, but i doubt very much that people were buying it outside of new jersey. It is difficult to say exactly, but from the adverts and articles, i would say middleclass women, perhaps with aspirations to be more than that , perhaps with more wealth. They had leisure time. Iny were broadly interested domestic things as well as politics, culture, and art. These were women involved in the separatist movement perhaps . Not the woman who bought the magazine, i dont think. Although it was different from the other store magazines published at the time, it was much less direct selling. It was certainly a consumer magazine. While women read it, i dont they were necessarily active women. They were perhaps progressive in their mindset. Certainly some of the women could turn it into the magazine had been involved in the Suffrage Movement and were still active feminists. Who would have been her contemporaries in terms of other women writers . Her contemporaries in some of the more major mexicans would bend with the parker and and missing principle a. Those figures. There are comparisons to be made. Lidia steptoe, writing for , there is a commonality between their sort of sophisticated, knowing tip of writing that would respond to the readers, perhaps satirizing them. Was gina barnes in touch with these other women writers, or did she have any personal relationships with them . Dorothy parker, i dont think so. Edna, she would have been in Greenwich Village at the same time as her in the teens. Later on, she is in paris in the 1920s and in and out of the same circles as james joyce and ezra pound and other key figures of the period. Tell us what you found in the archives at the library of congress. What is the charm collection right . I have had the whole set of charm at my desk. It has been wonderful. I discovered its an ambitious magazine. For a Department Store magazine, they were trying to use this magazine as a professional tool to cultivate perhaps a particular audience for the store, but also to kind of of modernityair about it. It has modern typefaces, a slick layout. It is confident and bold. It used contemporary illustrators and photographers, mixing illustrations and photography. To look at it, its modern. Yet what is interesting about charm, it has an equally confident civic, local focus on new jersey issues. It blends these issues of inernity with women living and working in new jersey. What kinds of local issues have you come across . If there is an article about women in politics, then it would. E women in new jersey politics there was a writer called the Malcolm Cowley as part of this group, and they commissioned him to write a number of pieces throughout the 1920s. I read in one of his memoirs that he started suggesting his own topics, and he suggested writing about new jersey natural history, articles about the coastline of new jersey. Quite broad. Have you been able to fashion some conclusions to some of the research youve done so far, four has the Research Lead you in an unexpected direction . Of conclusions are sort certainly, the idea that the magazine is trying to negotiate its identity between a modern outlook for modern progressive women, negotiating new roles, women who are homemakers and interested in interior design and fashion of recipes also are interested in politics and art and literature. The kind of emphasis combined with this localism is what characterizes the magazine. That is quite interesting for me. Often, we associate modernism theavantgarde writing with centers of paris and new york. There is a real paris focus in the magazine. There always was. The fashion comes from paris. The best art and literature comes from paris. The fact that that is combined with this new jersey Regional Focus really sort of ships the ideas we have about modernism being a metropolitan phenomenon. What was the initial focus of your phd research . My phd looks at female modernist writers, their links with fashion. Im interested in how they write about fashion in their work, in their literary work, and also in journalism. It semantically, philosophically, and even for instance, fashion is a useful way to think about the passage of time or using it metaphorically for how other things might be trenddriven. An example ofe us how fashion indicates the passage of time . I am trying to think of one from barnes writing. She has an image in one of her early books of poetry as a pregnant baby, which is quite a strange vision. She is quite interested in that. I think it is a way for her to focus on modernity and how quickly it comes and its gone. It is a passing moment. Imagempares that to the of the picture she draws to a company this book of poetry, a woman wearing fashionable trousers. The comparison is a way of saying that this modern moment we are so invested in will be old hat. Tell us about that modern moment. What was the world they lived in . What was it like . It was a time when women were able to negotiate their in a way they hadnt been able to do before. Gina barnes as part of a group of men and women in Greenwich Village in the night in the teens who are writing scripts for themselves in a sense. Women could wear trousers and smoke in public. There wasnt it wasnt necessarily approved of in some circles, but there was a sense of freedom. Not to overstate that. Women didnt get to vote in america until 1920, 1928 in england. There was still work to be done, but it was certainly a time of new possibilities for women and their identities. Way of thema expressing that and trying out some new roles. What contributions do you hope your research will make . Continuesmy research to expand the idea of who were important figures at this time. For a long time, modernism was thought of in terms of the big male figures, choice and t. S. And t. S. Eliot. In the past few decades, feminist scholars have included more peripheral figures like barnes. Barnes is more of a central figure in modernism. Im hoping that my work continues that work that his him that work that has already been done. Also, fashion, a topic that gets marginalized is not a surly serious, i hope to show more about the cultural context these people were working in and how they were thinking for issues that affected women in modernity. Fashion was one of the ways. Why do you think the study of fashion has been marginalized . I think it appears frivolous. It is associated with women indelibly. It is not seen as a serious issue, i suppose. When i look it barnes particularly, she is invested in it philosophically, and that really lifts up into a serious subject. Think about our relationship to literature, and i think fashion can be thought about in the same way. Form thatlid cultural writers were really interested in. Have you found any surprises in your research . I was really surprised to learn one of the nicest discoveries i i could not find anything else about her. The resources at the library of congress are amazing, but i still could not find her name anywhere. Paragraph about the work she did. Name,s using a different slightly more formal. She was a young female journalist in new yord