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THE GREEN SHEAF REVIEWS

Periodicals on both sides of the Atlantic regularly reviewed late-Victorian little magazines of art and literature. Some reviews would be fairly lengthy essays; others might only be a sentence or two in length; occasionally, the critic would compare one magazine to another. As was typical of the period, most reviews were published unsigned. This digital repository of historical reviews offers insight into the critical reception of Y90s magazines at the time of their production. 


From The Reader: “Writers and Readers”: Review of The Green Sheaf, Vol. 5

Unattributed
MISS Pamela Colman Smith was born of American parents in London, where her father was at the time engaged in business. On both sides her forebears exhibited in some degree the tendencies which have brought Miss Smith to the front in literary and artistic circles.
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From The Critic: “Representative American Women Illustrators: The Decorative Workers.”

Regina Armstrong
When one takes up the art of Pamela Colman Smith, so strongly decorative, it is to find that even in consideration with decorative workers, it occupies a distinct, a unique place. No one is doing quite the same kind of work that Miss Smith essays, and it is safe to say that no one could do it in quite her way.
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From Brush and Pencil: “Cleverness, Art, and An Artist: Seven Illustrations”

Gardner Teall
The inklings of Genius are seldom found lurking in the academic, and when genius assumes the stiff and somber mantle of this ancient attribution it is rated to its worth by reason of its own being rather than by reason of its assumption of any garb whatsoever.
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From The Academy and Literature: “Art Notes”

I have been flipping through the dandified leaves of the ninth number of that strange little periodical “The Green Sheaf,” published and edited and sold by the strange personality whom we call Pamela Colman Smith.
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From The Academy and Literature: “Literary Notes”

The Green Sheaf” is a refreshing publication, as its name implies. Thirteen numbers are issued yearly, it is printed, and well printed, on antique paper, the literary contents are quaint and sometimes beautiful…
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From The Review of Reviews: “London Editors Who Are Women”

Mr. Rudolph De Cordova sketches the women editors of London, with portraits, in Cassell’s Magazine.
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