Back in print for the first time in seventy years is award-winning novelist Rose Macaulay’s Potterism, a satire on British journalism through the lens of both the owners and employees of a popular newspaper empire.
When Jane and Johnny Potter are at Oxford they learn to despise their father’s popular newspapers, though they still end up working for the family business. But Jane is ambitious and wants more than society will let her have.
Mrs. Potter is a well-known romantic novelist, whose cheap novelettes appear in the shop-girls’ magazines. She has become unable to distinguish fact from fiction, and her success gives her an unhealthy estimation of her own influence. When she visits a medium to try to find the truth about the murder of her son-in-law, she wreaks terrible damage.
Arthur Gideon works for Mr. Potter as an editor. He respects his employer’s honesty while he despises the populist newspapers he has to produce. His turbulent campaigning spirit, and his furious resistance to anti-Semitic attacks, make him unpopular, and becomes an unwitting target of malice.
With an introduction is by Sarah Lonsdale, Potterism is about the Potter newspaper empire, and the ways in which journalists struggled to balance the truth and what would sell, during the First World War and into the 1920s.
Sobre el autor
Dr Sarah Lonsdale has been a British journalist for twenty five years, training on the Reading Chronicle before joining the Observer newspaper in 1990 as a general reporter. During her time on the Observer she specialised in stories concerning social justice. She is now freelance and has written for a wide variety of publications including: Observer, Financial Times, Evening Standard, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Mail, Independent on Sunday, Country Homes and Interiors Magazine, Observer Food Monthly, National Geographic Green, TLS and the Sunday Times. She was a weekly columnist for the Sunday Telegraph 2006 – 2014 writing about environmental issues, particularly the threat of climate change.
Dr Lonsdale holds a BA (Hons) and MA from the University of Cambridge in Modern and Medieval Languages (French and Italian). She completed her Ph D, ‘The Representation of Journalists and the Newspaper Press in British Literature 1900 – 1939’ at the University of Kent in 2013. She holds a Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCHE). She joined City University London in 2013 after six years as a lecturer at the University of Kent, teaching at the School of English and the Centre for Journalism there.
She published her first book, The Journalist in British Fiction and Film: Guarding the Guardians from 1900 to the Present in 2016. Her second book, Rebel Women Between the Wars: Writers, Activists, Adventurers was published by Manchester University Press in 2020.
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