Potterism
Subtitle: A Tragi-Farcical Tract
Publisher: Handheld Press
Published: 2020
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781912766338
Description: First published in 1920, this powerful satire by Rose Macaulay 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. 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 greedy, and wants more than society will let her have.

The Introduction is by Sarah Lonsdale, senior lecturer in journalism at City University London, and the author of the Introduction to Handheld Press’s best-selling edition of Rose Macaulay’s What Not (2019).