New Writing

*New Writing*
Categories	Literary magazine
Founder	John Lehmann
Founded	1936
Final issue	1950
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

New Writing was a popular literary periodical in book format founded in 1936 by John Lehmann and committed to anti-fascism.^[1]

It featured leading poets and writers of the day such as W.H. Auden, V.S. Pritchett,^[2] Christopher Isherwood, Tom Wintringham, Stephen Spender,^[3] Ahmed Ali,^[4] Jim Phelan, Rex Warner, and B. L. Coombes.^[5] New Writing also published articles about Mass-Observation by Tom Harrisson.^[5]

After having been approached by Lehmann to contribute a piece to the periodical, George Orwell developed a "sketch" he had had in mind for some time, and which appeared as "Shooting an Elephant", first published in the second number of the periodical, in Autumn 1936.^[1] A second piece by Orwell, "Marrakech", appeared in the Christmas 1939 edition.^[6]

Penguin New Writing

With New Writing's future uncertain, Lehmann wrote New Writing in Europe for Pelican Books, a critical summary of the writers of the 1930s. Wintringham reintroduced Lehmann to Allen Lane of Penguin Books, who secured paper for Penguin New Writing, a monthly book-magazine, this time as a paperback, and which survived until 1950.

References

^ ^a ^b The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, Volume 1 – An Age Like This 1939–1940, p. 250. Penguin
^ "John Lehmann" Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 28 December 2013.
^ Lehmann, John Folios of New Writing, Issue 1, p. 9. Hogarth Press, 1940 At Google Books. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
^ Orwell and Politics. Penguin UK, 2001 At Google Books. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
^ ^a ^b Steve Ellis, British writers and the approach of World War II. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. ISBN 9781107054585 (p. 175)
^ The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, Volume 1 – An Age Like This 1939–1940, p. 426. Penguin

[age-1] The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, Volume 1 – An Age Like This 1939–1940, p. 250. Penguin

[2] "John Lehmann" Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 28 December 2013.

[3] Lehmann, John Folios of New Writing, Issue 1, p. 9. Hogarth Press, 1940 At Google Books. Retrieved 23 December 2013.

[4] Orwell and Politics. Penguin UK, 2001 At Google Books. Retrieved 23 December 2013.

[se-5] Steve Ellis, British writers and the approach of World War II. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. ISBN 9781107054585 (p. 175)

[6] The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, Volume 1 – An Age Like This 1939–1940, p. 426. Penguin

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