The New Freewoman: The Individualist Review

Overview

Making a sharp break from its predecessor, The Freewoman, Dora Marsden's second journal was frankly individualistic and much more literary. Rebecca West temporarily operated as literary editor for some months before Ezra Pound and Richard Aldington were brought in as literary editors. With their influence the magazine also addressed Imagism, Modernism and other revolutionary schools of thought, refusing to abandon those themes that older readers had used to condemn The Freewoman as an "immoral paper".  Marsden's shift in the magazine's focus prepared the way for the final shift of the journal's title in the third incarnation of the magazine: The Egoist. Both of these journals were supported by Harriet Shaw Weaver, who later became an editor of The Egoist.