Edwardian local press invented the ‘middlebrow’ with a lively mix of local news, reviews and fiction
Edwardian local press invented the ‘middlebrow’ with a lively mix of local news, reviews and fiction: Our First Tiff by Robert Walker Macbeth (1878). Walker Art Gallery As the provincial press has declined in Britain, so too has local arts and cultural criticism. In the 19th and early 20th century, regional newspapers regularly published reviews …