The London Aphrodite

Overview

"The London Aphrodite was a cultural magazine produced by Jack Lindsay and P. R. Inky Stephensen and it was published in 6 parts by their Franfolico Press in London between August 1928 and July 1929. It is an interesting magazine because of the literary personalities involved with it, the cultural mission that it sought to represent, and the ways in which it engaged with some of the key cultural debates of the time – not the least of which were modernism and censorship and their relationship to the British class system" (Lee)

The journal was originally organized in response to another popular journal of the time, The London Mercury, and was in great defiance of  their philosophies towards literature. In their first issue, they said, "We stand for a point of view that equally outrages the modernist and the reactionary." The literature published in The London Aphrodite was radical and very avant-garde, thanks to the editors themselves.  Jack Lindsay, editor of the magazine, was an author and an activist--he even became a prominent writer for the Communist Party of Great Britain.