MacCarthy, Desmond

Maynard Keynes and a consortium of other Liberals acquired control of the Nation Athenaeum in 1923 Leonard Woolf became the paper s literary editor that year, and remained so down to 1930, when the N A merged with the New Statesman, of which Desmond MacCarthy had been Hterary editor from 1921 to 1927. 

Desmond MacCarthy, Kant and Post-Impressionism , Eye-Witness, 10 October 1912, pp. 533-4. 

Desmond MacCarthy, The Post-Impressionists , from the catalogue to Manet and the Post-Impressionists , 1910-11 (London 1910), p. 9. The essay is reprinted in S.P. Rosenbaum, A Bloomsbury Group Reader (Oxford Blackwell, 1993). MacCarthy, Kant and Post-Impressionism , pp. 533-4. 

Woolf developed this argument in response to the assertions made by Arnold Bennett in his 1920 collection of essays, Our Women Chapters on the Sex-Discord, and to a favourable review of Bennett s book by her friend Desmond MacCarthy, writing under the pseudonym Affable Hawk . Her diary entry for z6 September 1920 records her making up a paper upon Women, as a counterblast to Mr Bennett s adverse views reported in the papers , in particular his claim that intellectually and creatively man is the superior of woman (Dz, p. 69). In her letters to the New Statesman, Woolf anticipates the arguments of A Room of One s Own ... 

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