![]() But we may call Kohler’s sentiments feminist. Kohler likely would not have described herself as a feminist that term came into vogue in the last third of the twentieth century. Kohler’s indignation at The Yale Review’s rebuke of MacAfee should be put into an historical context. A remarkable lady … and one reason why I appreciated Mr. She kept on for the rest of her time as ‘managing editor’ even though she was doing the whole thing. Then when he died, she wasn’t made editor. Kohler recalled about her hiring, “He made a point of, which I think was very generous on his part when you consider that Miss Helen MacAfee was managing editor of The Yale Review for years untold under Wilbert Cross as editor. Although Shepperson retained the title of editor until 1946, Kohler actually filled both the managing editor and editor positions in his absence.Ĭonsidering the hiring inequities faced by women editors at other academic journals, Kohler felt fortunate about being hired at the VQR. Newcomb agreed with Wilson’s choice and insisted that Kohler become editor. Wilson and then-University president John Newcomb wanted to replace Shepperson with a “war-proof” editor, and Wilson thought of Kohler, his former student. in 1933 in only nine months and was U.Va.’s first female Phi Beta Kappa in 1936.Īs with so many men working at the University during World War II, Kohler’s predecessor, VQR editor Archibald Shepperson, left in 1942 to go to war. A graduate of Vassar, Kohler had studied under VQR founder James Southall Wilson at the University of Virginia, becoming one of its first female Ph.D.s in 1936. In fact, by the 1950s, among the preeminent university-based literature journals only one could claim a woman editor: The Virginia Quarterly Review.Ĭharlotte Kohler served as the journal’s sixth editor and enjoyed the longest tenure of any editor of the VQR, from 1946 until 1975 (she was managing editor from 1942–1946). Yet academic literary journals did not share the forward thinking of their independent cousins. 7, 2008 - Among the renowned literary journals of the early 20th century, women editors abound: Harriet Monroe at Poetry, Marianne Moore at The Dial, Margaret Anderson at The Little Review, Dora Marsden at The Egoist.
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