Carey Snyder

Bio

Carey Snyder is Professor of English at Ohio University. She is co-editor, with Faith Binckes, of the Edinburgh University Press collection, Women, Periodicals, and Print Culture in Britain, 1890s–1920s: the Modernist Period (2019), editor of the Broadview Press edition of H. G. Wells’s Ann Veronica (2015), and author of British Fiction and Cross-Cultural Encounters: Ethnographic Modernism from Wells to Woolf (2008). Her current research focuses mainly on modernist-era women writers, modern periodical studies, and feminist print culture.

Contributions

The Call (1924) by Edith Ayrton Zangwill: Two Recent Editions

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For many interwar writers, the women’s suffrage movement was a force as powerful as the war itself in shaping modernity. In her undeservedly forgotten novel The Call (1924) , Edith Ayrton Zangwill takes up the history of both suffrage militancy and the war, chronicling their impact on women’s professional, political, and personal lives. The novel tells the story of a young chemist, Ursula Winfield, who is initially more absorbed in questions of science than in questions of women’s rights. She...

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