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                <title level="a">“A Paper of Her Own”: Pamela Colman Smith’s <emph rend="italic">The Green Sheaf</emph> (1903-1904)</title>
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                <p>n May 1903, <emph rend="italic">The Review of Reviews</emph> 
                    published a brief item on “London Editors Who Are Women,” 
                    excerpted from a leading article in <emph rend="italic">Cassell’s 
                        Magazine</emph>. The author, Rudolph de Cordova, 
                    identifies nine female editors then based in London: 
                    Rachel Beer (<emph rend="italic">The Sunday Times</emph>); 
                    Hulda Friederichs (<emph rend="italic">Westminster Budget</emph>); 
                    Ada S. Ballin (<emph rend="italic">Baby and Womanhood</emph>); 
                    Ethel Gordon Fenwick (<emph rend="italic">Nursing Record</emph>); 
                    J. Heale (<emph rend="italic">Myra’s Journal</emph>); 
                    Rita Shell (<emph rend="italic">The Lady</emph>); E. 
                    Macdonald (<emph rend="italic">Ladies’ Field</emph>); 
                    Emma Sarah Williamson (<emph rend="italic">The Onlooker</emph>); 
                    and Pamela Colman Smith (<emph rend="italic">The Green Sheaf</emph>). 
                    De Cordova goes on to name five women who shared, “when 
                    they were editors, the distinction of owning her own 
                    paper,” but neglects to include Smith among them 
                    (“London” 485). <ref target="#PSM">Pamela Colman Smith</ref> (1878-1951), 
                    however, occupies a unique place in this distinctive 
                    group of early twentieth-century women who edited the 
                    periodicals they owned and managed. In addition to 
                    editing and publishing <ref target="#GSVOL">The Green Sheaf</ref> 
                    (1903-4), Smith contributed to both its literary and 
                    artistic contents. The periodical was available by 
                    mail-order through transatlantic subscriptions and at a 
                    few local places. In London, consumers could buy 
                    <emph rend="italic">The Green Sheaf</emph> in Vigo 
                    Street at the bookshop of <ref target="#EMAT">Elkin Mathews</ref> 
                    and (after the 4th issue) at 14 Milborne Grove, Smith’s 
                    premises. After the 7th issue, <emph rend="italic">The Green Sheaf</emph> 
                    could also be purchased at Brentano’s Bookstore in 
                    Union Square, New York. </p>

                <p>Unlike her sister editors, who were pioneers in the 
                    burgeoning mainstream press, Smith aimed <emph rend="italic">The Green Sheaf</emph> 
                    at a niche market interested in fine printing, folklore, 
                    and the mysticism associated with the Irish Celtic 
                    movement. <emph rend="italic">The Green Sheaf</emph> 
                    contested the industrial methods of the commercial press 
                    through an arts-and-crafts production model, which 
                    included hand-made paper and hand-coloured illustrations.
                    Like other arts-and-crafts little magazines such as 
                    <emph rend="italic"><ref target="#DIALVOL">The Dial</ref></emph> 
                    (1889-1897) and <emph rend="italic"><ref target="#EGVOL">The Evergreen</ref></emph> 
                    (1895-96/7), <emph rend="italic">The Green Sheaf</emph> 
                    was produced by a coterie of like-minded artists and 
                    writers, had an explicit manifesto and a short print 
                    run, and was linked with international networks of 
                    modern art. In the largely male-dominated world of 
                    little magazines in fin-de-siècle Great Britain, 
                    <emph rend="italic">The Green Sheaf</emph> is remarkable 
                    for its female leadership, eclectic content, and 
                    artisanal design. Its acknowledged place among other 
                    little magazines of the period is long overdue.</p>

                <p>In addition to <emph rend="italic">The Green Sheaf’s</emph> 
                    Celtic affiliations, Pamela Colman Smith, who was not 
                    Irish, brought a transnational interest in fluidity and 
                    border crossing to the magazine. This is not surprising 
                    in someone who claimed to have crossed the Atlantic 25 
                    times by the time she was 22 (Armstrong 526). Assuming 
                    the name “Pixie” given to her by Victorian actress 
                    Ellen Terry, Smith cultivated an “in-between” persona 
                    whose fluid identity encompassed the Irish pixie, the 
                    Jamaican Anansi (a trickster figure in Caribbean 
                    folklore), and even, on occasion, the Japanese girl 
                    (O’Connor, “Primitivism” 158, 167). Born to American 
                    parents in London, Smith triangulated among the United 
                    Kingdom, Jamaica, and New York throughout her formative 
                    years. Living in Kingston as a young girl, she enjoyed 
                    Jamaican folklore in oral culture, and Irish mythology 
                    and the ballad tradition in print culture. These twin 
                    influences can be seen throughout her career, coupled 
                    with the Japanese design principles and colour theory 
                    she developed as a student of Arthur Wesley Dow at the 
                    Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Arts-and-crafts ideals were 
                    embedded in the school’s curriculum, and Smith developed 
                    a method of hand-colouring her distinctively flat, 
                    black-bounded designs using stencils (Parsons 358). 
                    The artisanal <emph rend="italic">Green Sheaf</emph> 
                    enabled Smith to bring together her interests, 
                    influences, and inspirations. The magazine’s manifesto 
                    identified “<emph rend="italic">pictures, verses, ballads</emph> of 
                    <emph rend="italic">love</emph> and <emph rend="italic">war;</emph> 
                    tales of <emph rend="italic">pirates</emph> and the 
                    <emph rend="italic">sea</emph>” as its subject matter. 
                    Appearing with the back matter in early issues, this 
                    manifesto was published prominently on the cover, along 
                    with the self-referential <emph rend="italic">Green Sheaf</emph> 
                    iconography, from volumes four through thirteen (fig. 1). 
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                        Title Page for The Green Sheaf, vol. 4 (1903)
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                <caption>Figure 1. Title Page for <emph rend="italic">The Green Sheaf</emph>, vol. 4 (1903)</caption>

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                <p>While <emph rend="italic">The Green Sheaf</emph> was 
                    the first publication over which Pamela Colman Smith 
                    exercised sole control, she had previously co-edited 
                    <emph rend="italic">A Broad Sheet</emph>, and had 
                    made significant contributions to both <emph rend="italic">The Kensington: 
                        A Magazine of Art, Literature and the Drama</emph> and 
                    <emph rend="italic">A Celtic Christmas</emph>, the 
                    seasonal supplement to <emph rend="italic">The Irish Homestead</emph>. 
                    <emph rend="italic">The Kensington</emph> had a brief 
                    print run of seven monthly issues in 1901. A regular 
                    feature on “The Drama” by Christopher St. John (born 
                    Christabel Marshall) typically focused on Ellen Terry’s 
                    performances at the Lyceum Theatre in London. Terry was 
                    the mother of St. John’s partner Edith Craig; all three 
                    women were close with Pamela Colman Smith personally and 
                    professionally. Interested in stage and costume design 
                    from her youth, when she first created a toy theatre 
                    and began performing its plays in Jamaica and New York, 
                    Smith went on to design sets and costumes for Henry 
                    Irving and Ellen Terry at the Lyceum, W.B. Yeats’s early 
                    plays for the Irish Literary Society, and Craig’s 
                    suffrage plays for the Pioneer Players. Smith’s earliest 
                    commercial illustration work included hand-coloured 
                    prints of scenes from Shakespeare, which she sold 
                    through the Macbeth Gallery on Fifth Avenue in New York, 
                    and a calendar featuring <emph rend="italic">Shakespeare’s Heroines</emph>, 
                    commissioned by R. H. Russell in 1899. She also produced 
                    a souvenir booklet for her cousin, William Gillette, an 
                    actor renowned for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes on 
                    the American stage, and a commemorative pamphlet 
                    celebrating Henry Irving and Ellen Terry (Kaplan et al, 25 and 27).</p>
                
                <p>Smith’s theatrical network is evident in both 
                    <emph rend="italic">The Green Sheaf’s</emph> literary 
                    and artistic contents and its advertising pages. The 
                    back matter of every issue promotes Edith Craig’s 
                    costume shop and hand-coloured prints by Pamela 
                    Colman Smith of Ellen Terry in various roles. Smith 
                    advised art students that “the stage is a great school—or 
                    should be—to the illustrator” (“Should the Art Student 
                    Think?” 417), and her own illustrative designs for 
                    <emph rend="italic">The Green Sheaf</emph> serve as 
                    object lessons for this approach. Typically, she 
                    positions the viewer from a particular vantage point, 
                    looking on a tableau frozen in the midst of action and 
                    narrative (fig. 2). In her illustration for Mary Brown’s 
                    “Lament of the Lyceum Rat,” for example, Smith depicts 
                    Henry Irving as Dante, stretching out his arm before a 
                    ghostly cast of himself and leading lady Ellen Terry 
                    silhouetted in an array of former roles. Combining the 
                    illustrative and the decorative, Smith shows the 
                    over-sized, titular rat emerging in profile from the 
                    dramatic black background, mirroring the bent back of 
                    one of Irving’s characters. The Lyceum rat’s tail in the 
                    right corner offsets Pamela Colman Smith’s distinctive 
                    monogram flourish in the left, possibly as an impish 
                    corrective to any possible “mawkish weeds of sugar-sweet 
                    sentimentality,” which Smith thought all artists ought 
                    to avoid (Smith, “Protest”). In September 1903 this 
                    image was reproduced in an article in the American 
                    magazine The Reader, which highlighted the topical 
                    poignancy of its appearance “at the time Sir Henry 
                    Irving was giving his farewell performances at the old 
                    Lyceum Theatre, now being torn down” (“Writers and 
                    Readers,” 332). </p>
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                <caption>Figure 2. Pamela Colman Smith, Illustration for Mary Brown's "Lament of the Lyceum Rat,” 
                    <emph rend="italic">The Green Sheaf</emph>, vol. 5 (1903)</caption>
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                <p>Smith’s involvement in <emph rend="italic">A Celtic Christmas</emph>, 
                    a seasonal supplement to the Dublin-based 
                    <emph rend="italic">Irish Homestead</emph>, was an 
                    outcome of her expanding Irish networks after meeting 
                    members of the Yeats family in spring of 1901. Her first 
                    illustrations for this magazine were published in the 
                    same year; later, her design representing the Celtic 
                    spirit as a female figure overlaid on the map of Ireland 
                    graced the magazine’s cover for five consecutive seasons 
                    (1904-8). In 1901 Smith also became involved with the 
                    Dun Emer Guild, the women-and-craft-focused enterprise 
                    established by Evelyn Gleeson and Elizabeth and Lily 
                    Yeats. Smith gave advice on hand printing and provided 
                    some designs for banners, book-plates, cards, and 
                    textiles (Bowe and Cumming 123-25). She also became 
                    close to the two Yeats brothers at this time. At W.B. 
                    Yeats’s invitation, Smith joined the Isis-Urania Temple 
                    of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, a secret 
                    society devoted to the study and practice of the occult. 
                    In 1902, she and Jack Yeats began to co-edit 
                    <emph rend="italic">A Broad Sheet</emph>, published by 
                    Elkin Mathews in monthly issues. A single page of 
                    hand-laid paper, vibrant with hand-coloured images 
                    interspersed with verses, <emph rend="italic">A Broad Sheet</emph> 
                    shared the arts-and-crafts values of <emph rend="italic">The Green Sheaf</emph>, 
                    as well as some of its thematic interests and 
                    contributors. After a year of working together, the 
                    collaboration began to fray, and Pamela Colman Smith 
                    decided, as <emph rend="italic">The Reader</emph> 
                    succinctly observed, to start “a paper of her own” 
                    (“Writers” 332). </p>
                
                <p>Cannily, Smith used the <emph rend="italic">Broad Sheet’s</emph> 
                    mailing list to disseminate <emph rend="italic">The Green Sheaf’s</emph> 
                    Prospectus and invite subscriptions from a 
                    transatlantic clientele:</p>
                
                <lg><l><emph rend="indent"></emph>You have been kind enough to support “A Broad Sheet,” so I think it well to tell</l>
                    <l><emph rend="indent"></emph>you that I have decided to transfer my services to another publication, somewhat </l>
                    <l><emph rend="indent"></emph>of the same nature, to be called “The Green Sheaf,” and of which I shall be the Editor.</l>
                    <l><emph rend="indent"></emph>The form of the new publication will be about the size of “Punch,” and will consist</l>
                    <l><emph rend="indent"></emph>of eight pages of literary matter, hand-coloured drawings, and wood-cuts. </l>
                    <l><emph rend="indent4"></emph>(repr in Kaplan et al, 181)</l></lg>
                
                <p>While both Jack and William contributed to 
                    <emph rend="italic">The Green Sheaf</emph>, and 
                    Elizabeth’s Dun Emer Press advertised in its back 
                    pages, Smith separated herself from the Yeats family 
                    in order to create her own vision for her little 
                    magazine. In title, content, and format, she made 
                    <emph rend="italic">The Green Sheaf</emph> her own, 
                    despite W.B. Yeats’s desire to direct and control the 
                    publication and its editor. Writing to Lady Augusta 
                    Gregory in December 1902, the poet claimed a proprietary 
                    interest in the magazine not borne out by the 
                    publication itself:</p>
                
                <lg><l><emph rend="indent"></emph>Pamela Smith is bringing out a Magazine to be called ‘The Hour-Glass’ after my </l>
                    <l><emph rend="indent"></emph>play. I am to write the preface in order to define the policy which I have got them </l>
                    <l><emph rend="indent"></emph>to take up. The Magazine is to be consecrated to what I called to their delight, the </l>
                    <l><emph rend="indent"></emph>Art of Happy Desire. It is to be quite unlike gloomy magazines like the <emph rend="italic">Yellow</emph> </l>
                    <l><emph rend="indent"></emph><emph rend="italic">Book</emph> and the <emph rend="italic">Savoy</emph>. People are to draw pictures of places they would have liked</l>
                    <l><emph rend="indent"></emph>to have lived in and to write stories and poems about a life they would have liked </l>
                    <l><emph rend="indent"></emph>to have lived. Nothing is to be let in unless it tells of something that seems </l>
                    <l><emph rend="indent"></emph>beautiful or charming or in some other way desirable. (<emph rend="italic">Yeats Letters</emph>, p. 271)</l></lg>
                
                <p>When it appeared, however, <emph rend="italic">The Green Sheaf</emph>— 
                    “edited, published, and sold by Pamela Colman Smith”—boldly 
                    embodied her own conception for the magazine in a 
                    self-referential cover design (fig. 3). Loosely gathered 
                    up and tied with a red ribbon, the bright green 
                    “sheaves” of paper feature a front-facing picture with 
                    implied letterpress and, on an inside sheaf, Smith’s 
                    idiosyncratic monogram (fig. 3). Described by Katharine 
                    Cockin as a “a caduceus with snake-entwined staff formed 
                    by the etiolated letter P overlaid with a C and an S,” 
                    this monogram adorns her work throughout her career 
                    (“Bram Stoker,” 170).</p>

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                <caption>Figure 3. Enlarged detail of front cover design for 
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                <p>As an arts-and-crafts little magazine, 
                    <emph rend="italic">The Green Sheaf</emph> respected 
                    the materials of its making, valued its collaborative 
                    processes of production, and expressed art’s role in 
                    envisioning a better world. Informed by Pamela Colman 
                    Smith’s feminist principles, which sought to support 
                    women in business as well as art, the magazine also had 
                    a commercial agenda directed at helping women make an 
                    independent living. On the <emph rend="italic">Yellow Nineties</emph> 
                    magazine rack, only <ref target="#VENVOL">The Venture</ref> 
                    (1903/1905) shares <emph rend="italic">The Green Sheaf’s</emph> 
                    particular combination of arts-and-crafts values, 
                    commercial interests, and feminism. With its designer’s 
                    interest in integrating image, text, and ornament, 
                    <emph rend="italic">The Green Sheaf</emph> is certainly 
                    comparable to other arts-and-crafts little magazines, 
                    such as <emph rend="italic"><ref target="#DIALVOL">The Dial</ref></emph> 
                    and <emph rend="italic"><ref target="#EGVOL">The Evergreen</ref></emph>, 
                    but they eschewed the mainstream market and did not 
                    include advertising pages. In contrast, 
                    <emph rend="italic">Yellow Nineties</emph> little 
                    magazines aiming to be aesthetic without being artisanal 
                    tended to include the marketplace in their back pages. 
                    <emph rend="italic"><ref target="#PAGVOL">The Pageant</ref></emph>, 
                    <emph rend="italic"><ref target="#SAVVOL">The Savoy</ref></emph>, 
                    and <emph rend="italic"><ref target="#YBVOL">The Yellow Book</ref></emph>, 
                    for instance, used the most up-to-date technological 
                    methods available and advertised publishers and 
                    businesses aligned with them in their back pages and 
                    supplements. Although <emph rend="italic">The Green Sheaf</emph> 
                    was an arts-and-crafts magazine, Smith also understood 
                    that advertisements were a means of networking producers 
                    and consumers. Notably, The Green Sheaf’s back pages 
                    prominently featured the work of women connected to the 
                    little magazine and its editor, including authors, 
                    artists, shop owners, publishers, textile designers, and 
                    craft instructors. Smith was particularly energetic in 
                    promoting her own work, advertising her hand-coloured 
                    books and prints, the Green Sheaf Press and its titles, 
                    the Green Sheaf School of Hand-Colouring and its 
                    services, and her “for hire” performances as 
                    Gelukiezanger, teller of Jamaican trickster tales. 
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                <p><emph rend="italic">The Green Sheaf’s</emph> 
                    commercial orientation clearly distinguishes it from 
                    <emph rend="italic">A Broad Sheet</emph>, whose 
                    arts-and-crafts approach to magazine-as-art-object it 
                    otherwise shares. Smith brought her knowledge of hand 
                    colouring with her when she joined Jack Yeats to co-edit 
                    <emph rend="italic">A Broad Sheet</emph>. It seems 
                    likely that Smith developed her hand-colouring method 
                    when she built her first toy theatre for <emph rend="italic">Henry Morgan</emph>, 
                    her play about a seventeenth-century privateer. This 
                    dramatic spectacle, which included 300 characters and 
                    elaborate scenes, was first staged in Kingston, Jamaica, 
                    in 1896 (O’Connor, “Primitivism,” 161). Toy theatres 
                    became popular in the early years of the nineteenth 
                    century, when consumers could buy printed sheets of 
                    figures and sets for “penny plain” or “tuppence 
                    coloured.” Smith’s hand-colouring method, as Melinda 
                    Boyd Parsons observes, “was undoubtedly related to the 
                    stenciling process used for theatrical sheets" 
                    (<emph rend="italic">To All Believers</emph>, np). Given 
                    Smith’s strong interest in pre-industrial folklore and 
                    artisanal practices, it makes sense that she should 
                    develop a stenciling method for hand-colouring images in 
                    her prints, books, and magazines. One of her first 
                    hand-coloured prints, an illustration for Yeats’s 
                    <emph rend="italic">The Land of Heart’s Desire</emph> 
                    (1898), was commissioned by R. H. Russell in New York, 
                    years before she met the poet and his family (O’Connor, 
                    “Primitivism,” 161). In 1899, Smith brought out two 
                    editions of folklore with hand-coloured illustrations, 
                    <emph rend="italic">The Golden Vanity and The Green Bed</emph> 
                    and <emph rend="italic">Widdicombe Fair</emph>. In a 
                    review published in <emph rend="italic">The Lamp</emph> 
                    in 1903, all three of these works were praised “for the 
                    freshness of color and directness of design”—features 
                    the critic anticipated would be evident in the 
                    forthcoming <emph rend="italic">Green Sheaf</emph> 
                    (repr in Kaplan et al, 180). Later, a critic in the 
                    <emph rend="italic">Academy</emph> confirmed that the 
                    magazine’s “chiefest charm lies in the hand-coloured 
                    prints, which are highly decorative, simple in 
                    treatment and of a pleasant old-world flavour” 
                    (“Literary Notes” 137). The reviewer’s remarks highlight 
                    how aptly <emph rend="italic">The Green Sheaf’s</emph> 
                    artisanal production methods expressed its subject 
                    matter and thematic concerns. </p>
                
                <p>The Prospectus announced that “The First Number will 
                    be published on the 30th January, 1903,” with 
                    “thirteen numbers in the year” (qtd in Kaplan et al, 
                    181). The print run was indeed completed in thirteen 
                    issues, but the first issue came out in spring, rather 
                    than winter. The Green Sheaf ran from May 1903 to May 
                    1904; subscriptions went for thirteen shillings, and 
                    individual copies could be had for thirteen pence. The 
                    unusual yearly number aligns <emph rend="italic">The Green Sheaf</emph> 
                    with other little magazines, such as <emph rend="italic"><ref target="#DIALVOL">The Dial</ref></emph> 
                    and <emph rend="italic"><ref target="#EGVOL">The Evergreen</ref></emph>, 
                    that set out to challenge industrial time with an 
                    alternative seriality. In addition to the number of 
                    issues, the distinctive pricing system suggests that 
                    the number thirteen may have been as important to Pamela 
                    Colman Smith’s conception of <emph rend="italic">The Green Sheaf</emph> 
                    as its titular colour. Why this was so is less clear. 
                    One possibility may be that Smith wished to follow a 
                    lunar calendar. The year falling between May 1903 and 
                    May 1904 had thirteen, rather than twelve, full moons; 
                    the extra one is commonly known as a “blue moon.” Phases 
                    of the moon have traditionally been associated with 
                    women, but there may have been an additional appeal to 
                    Smith and her circle. In his collection of fairy tales, 
                    <emph rend="italic">The Blue Moon</emph> (1904), Smith’s 
                    fellow feminist <ref target="#LHA">Laurence Housman</ref> used the symbol to 
                    express the naturalness of same-sex love. Although 
                    Smith’s sexual orientation, like her ethnic origin, is 
                    unknown, her social networks included many in the 
                    Victorian queer community, and her artwork often 
                    featured androgynous figures. </p>
                
                <p>The significance of the number thirteen may, however,
                    derive from the initiation ceremonies of the Order 
                    of the Golden Dawn rather than the lunar year. As an 
                    initiate, Smith would have been taught “the appearance, 
                    meanings, and methods” of the tarot cards (Kaplan et al, 
                    373). In the tarot deck that Smith was to design for 
                    Arthur Waite in 1909, Number 13 is the Death card, 
                    indicating “rebirth, creation, destination, renewal” (
                    Waite 97). Notably, <emph rend="italic">The Green Sheaf</emph> 
                    was launched in the same year that the Order of the 
                    Golden Dawn experienced a schism: members interested in 
                    magic and the occult followed W.B. Yeats, while members 
                    like Smith, who was more interested in a Judeo-Christian 
                    mysticism, stayed with Arthur Waite (Kaplan et al, 352). 
                    The split within the Golden Dawn at this time may have 
                    strengthened Smith’s determination to produce her 
                    <emph rend="italic">Green Sheaf</emph> magazine on her 
                    own, apart from W.B. Yeats’s directives. Later, when she 
                    designed the famous Rider-Waite tarot deck, she used a 
                    pictorial style and symbolism akin to her illustrations 
                    for <emph rend="italic">The Green Sheaf</emph> (see 
                    fig. 4). Given Smith’s familiarity with the tarot deck, 
                    it seems likely that the combination of the magazine’s 
                    titular colour and thirteen-issue seriality aimed to 
                    associate <emph rend="italic">The Green Sheaf</emph> with 
                    both the transformative creation of “fresh young things” 
                    and the renewal of “old world” things that are “green 
                    forever” (fig. 1). This linking of old and new through a 
                    perennial colour was similarly used in the 
                    Edinburgh-based Celtic magazine, 
                    <emph rend="italic"><ref target="#EGVOL">The Evergreen: A Northern Seasonal</ref></emph>. 
                    Green is also representative of Ireland itself, and 
                    Pamela Colman Smith’s Green Sheaf was at the heart of 
                    the Irish Revival, featuring Celtic myth and story as 
                    well as many of the key contributors to the movement. 
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                    <figDesc>Pamela Colman Smith, Illustration for Deirdre, by A.E., Supplement to The Green Sheaf, vol. 7 (1903)
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                <caption>Figure 4. Pamela Colman Smith, Illustration for Deirdre, by A.E., 
                    Supplement to <emph rend="italic">The Green Sheaf</emph>, vol. 7 (1903)</caption>
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                <p>Although it had a limited print run and each issue 
                    was of a very modest size, <emph rend="italic">The Green Sheaf</emph> 
                    included some 50 contributors, with American, British, 
                    Dutch, German, Irish, Japanese, and South African 
                    nationalities. The Prospectus announced that the new 
                    publication “will consist of eight pages,” but in fact 
                    almost half of the thirteen issues (6/13) extended to 
                    sixteen pages, and some of the shorter numbers were 
                    augmented with substantial supplements. The eight pages 
                    of Number 7, for example, were enhanced by a twelve-page 
                    supplement—truly a case of the paratext overpowering 
                    the text. The insert was <emph rend="italic">Deirdre: A Drama in Three Acts</emph>, 
                    by A.E. (George Russell), one of the leading figures of 
                    the Irish Revival. Cecil French and Pamela Colman Smith 
                    each provided a hand-coloured illustration (fig. 4). 
                    French published in almost every issue of 
                    <emph rend="italic">The Green Sheaf</emph>, and A.E. was 
                    a regular contributor. Other members of the Irish 
                    Revival movement who contributed to the 
                    <emph rend="italic">Green Sheaf</emph> include Lady 
                    Alix Egerton, Lady Augusta Gregory, <ref target="#WHO">W. T. Horton</ref>, J. M. 
                    Synge, and the Yeats brothers. </p>
                
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                    <figDesc>W.T. Horton, Illustration for William Blake, The Green Sheaf, no. 2 (1903)
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                <caption>Figure 5. W.T. Horton, Illustration for William Blake, 
                    <emph rend="italic">The Green Sheaf</emph>, no. 2 (1903)</caption>
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                <p>In addition to publishing contemporary artists and 
                    authors from her networks of Irish and folklore 
                    revival, theatre, and feminist activism, Smith also 
                    included some of her most admired predecessors in her 
                    magazine. Foremost among these are writer and educationalist 
                    Anna Barbauld (1743-1825) and poet, artist, and printer 
                    William Blake (1757-1827). Notably, Smith had tried, 
                    without success, to interest publishers in illustrated 
                    editions of both these writers. It is possible that some 
                    of her illustrated excerpts from Barbauld’s 
                    <emph rend="italic">Lessons for Children</emph> (1778), 
                    which appear in <emph rend="italic">Green Sheaf</emph> 
                    Numbers 4, 9, and 13, were from this project. The two 
                    extracts from Blake, in Numbers 2 and 8, were 
                    illustrated by <ref target="#WHO">W. T. Horton</ref> 
                    (1864-1919), another member of the Golden Dawn who was 
                    attracted to Blake’s ideas about the transient physical 
                    world mirroring the eternal infinite (fig. 5). As a 
                    thinker, artist, and printer who made and hand-coloured 
                    his own books, Blake was a significant inspiration for 
                    Smith. His presence in <emph rend="italic">The Green Sheaf</emph> 
                    acknowledges this debt. Insightful contemporaries also 
                    made the connection. Writing in <emph rend="italic">Camera Work</emph> 
                    after Smith exhibited some of her work at the avant-garde 
                    Stieglitz Gallery in New York in 1909, Benjamin de 
                    Casseres identified her as a visionary who “approaches 
                    Blake and Beardsley” in her art (qtd in Pyne 53). </p>
                
                <p>In the early twentieth century Smith was enmeshed in 
                    networks of art, performance, and feminist cultures on 
                    both sides of the Atlantic. Her range of influence, 
                    moreover, was unusually wide, spreading not only across 
                    disciplines and media, but also across artistic groups in 
                    London, Dublin, New York, and, to some extent, the 
                    continent (O’Connor, “Disgruntled” 73). Despite these 
                    transnational connections, however, 
                    <emph rend="italic">The Green Sheaf</emph> was not 
                    widely reviewed and does not seem to have sold enough 
                    copies to sustain the cost of its artisanal production. 
                    As Smith wrote to Albert Bigelow Paine, an American 
                    children’s magazine editor who contributed to 
                    <emph rend="italic">The Green Sheaf’s</emph> ninth 
                    issue, “Green Sheaf does not pay yet—it is most 
                    discouraging to go on working on it” (qtd in Kaplan et 
                    al, 55). Although she hinted that 
                    <emph rend="italic">The Green Sheaf</emph> might 
                    convert to a semi-annual production after completing 
                    its first year, this did not happen. Instead, Smith 
                    turned to the businesses she had built up from her 
                    publishing venture, the Green Sheaf School of 
                    Hand-Colouring and the Green Sheaf Press, both of which 
                    she advertised in her magazine. Elizabeth O’Connor 
                    speculates that students at the School may have helped 
                    hand-colour issues of <emph rend="italic">The Green Sheaf</emph> 
                    (“Disgruntled” 85). There is no direct evidence of this, \
                    though the possibility is supported by timing: the 
                    School opened in April 1903, just as the first number 
                    of <emph rend="italic">The Green Sheaf</emph> was being 
                    prepared. The two operations—School and Press—were 
                    collaborative efforts with Smith’s friend, “Mrs. 
                    Fortescue” (possibly Ethel P.F. Fryer-Fortescue, a 
                    member of the Golden Dawn whose signature appears in 
                    Smith’s Visitor’s Book at this time). Like the magazine, 
                    the Green Sheaf Press featured writing by women and 
                    works of fantasy and folklore. One of these was Pamela 
                    Colman Smith’s own <emph rend="italic">Chim-Chim Stories</emph> (1905), a 
                    hand-coloured companion to her earlier collection of 
                    Jamaican folktales, <emph rend="italic">Annancy Stories</emph>, 
                    brought out by R. H. Russell in 1899.</p>
                
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                    <figDesc>Advertisement for Gelukiezanger, The Green Sheaf, vol. 6
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                <caption>Figure 6. Advertisement for Gelukiezanger, 
                    <emph rend="italic">The Green Sheaf</emph>, vol. 6</caption>
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                <p>In her letter to Paine complaining of 
                    <emph rend="italic">The Green Sheaf’s</emph> failure 
                    to become commercially viable, Smith alluded to the 
                    potential success of her performative story-telling: 
                    “I am telling Annancy stories very often now and hope 
                    in time to make some money by it” (qtd in Kaplan et al, 
                    55). She may have hoped that the 
                    <emph rend="italic">Chim-Chim</emph> publication could 
                    be sold at her performances in the role of 
                    Gelukiezanger, the persona she adopted for her oral 
                    tellings of Jamaican tales. As she had done with her 
                    hand-coloured prints of Ellen Terry, her hand-coloured 
                    books of folklore, her School of Hand-Colouring, and 
                    her Press, Smith advertised her storytelling services 
                    in the back pages of <emph rend="italic">The Green Sheaf</emph> (fig. 6). </p>
                
                <p>Despite being an innovative and enterprising entrepreneur, 
                    performance artist, and creative producer of books and 
                    magazines, however, Pamela Colman Smith was always 
                    impecunious. After her death, she and her work fell into 
                    obscurity, but recent scholarship has begun to reassess 
                    her oeuvre. The <emph rend="italic">Yellow Nineties</emph> 
                    digital edition of <emph rend="italic">The Green Sheaf</emph> 
                    allows users to study Smith’s editorial theory and 
                    artistic practice in the context of other innovative 
                    little magazines produced in late-nineteenth and early 
                    twentieth century Great Britain.</p>
                
           
                <p>©2021 Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, FRSC, Ryerson University, Toronto</p>

                <listBibl>
                    <head>Selected Publications by Pamela Colman Smith</head>

                    <bibl><emph rend="italic">Annancy Stories</emph>. 
                        R. H. Russell, 1899. </bibl>
                    
                    <bibl><emph rend="italic">Chim-Chim Stories</emph>. 
                        Green Sheaf Press, 1905. </bibl>
                    
                    <bibl><emph rend="italic">The Golden Vanity and the Green Bed</emph>. 
                        Doubleday and McClure, 1899.</bibl>
                    
                    <bibl><emph rend="italic">The Green Sheaf</emph>, 
                        13 vols., 1903-1904.</bibl>
                    
                    <bibl>“The Lament of the Lyceum Rat.” Headpiece 
                        illustration for Mary Brown, 
                        <emph rend="italic">The Green Sheaf</emph>, vol. 5, 
                        1903, p. 1903, p. 8.</bibl>
                    
                    <bibl><emph rend="italic">The Land of Heart’s Desire</emph>, 
                        by W.B. Yeats. Triptych print. R. H.  Russell, 1898.</bibl>
                    
                    <bibl>Prospectus to <emph rend="italic">The Green Sheaf</emph>, 
                        n.d. Reprinted in Kaplan et al, p. 181.</bibl>
                    
                    <bibl>“A Protest Against Fear.” 
                        <emph rend="italic">The Craftsman</emph>, vol 11, no. 6, 
                        March 1907, p. 728.</bibl>
                    
                    <bibl><emph rend="italic">Shakespeare’s Heroines</emph>. 
                        Calendar for 1899. R. H. Russell, 1899.</bibl>
                    
                    <bibl>“Should the Art Student Think?” 
                        <emph rend="italic">The Craftsman</emph>, vol. 14, 
                        no. 4, July 1908, pp. 417-19.</bibl>
                    
                    <bibl><emph rend="italifc">Sir Henry Irving and Miss Ellen Terry</emph>, 
                        drawn by Pamela Colman Smith. Doubleday &#38; McClure, 1899.</bibl>
                    
                    <bibl><emph rend="italic">Widdicombe Fair</emph>, Doubleday and McClure, 1899.</bibl>

                </listBibl>
                
                <listBibl>
                    <head>Selected Publications About Pamela Colman Smith.</head>
                
                
                    <bibl>Armstrong, Regina. “Representative American 
                        Women Illustrators: The Decorative Workers.” 
                        <emph rend="italic">The Critic</emph>, vol. 36, no. 
                        6, June 1900, pp. 52-59.</bibl>
                    
                    <bibl>Bowe, Nicola Gordon, and Elizabeth Cumming. 
                        <emph rend="italic">The Arts and Crafts Movement in Dublin and Edinburgh 1885-1925</emph>, 
                        Irish Academic Press, 1998.</bibl>
                    
                    <bibl>Cockin, Katharine. “Bram Stoker, Ellen Terry, 
                        Pamela Colman Smith and the Art of Devilry.” 
                        <emph rend="italic">Bram Stoker and The Gothic: Formations to Transformations</emph>, 
                        edited by Catherine Wynne, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, pp. 159-171.</bibl>
                    
                    <bibl>---. “Pamela Colman Smith, Anansi, and The Child: 
                        From <emph rend="italic">The Green Sheaf</emph> 
                        (1903) to the <emph rend="italic">Anti-Suffrage Alphabet</emph> 
                        (1912). <emph rend="italic">Literary and Cultural Alternatives to Modernism</emph>, 
                        edited by Kostas Boyiopoulos, Anthony Patterson, and 
                        Mark Sandy, Routledge 2019, pp. 71-84.</bibl>
                    
                    <bibl>Kaplan, Stuart R., with Mary K. Greer, Elizabeth 
                        Foley O’Connor, and Melinda Boyd Parsons. 
                        <emph rend="italic">Pamela Colman Smith: The Untold Story</emph>. 
                        U.S. Games Systems, 2018.</bibl>
                    
                    <bibl>“Literary Notes,” <emph rend="italic">The Academy and Literature</emph>, 
                        vol. 66, no. 1657, February 6, 1904, p. 137.</bibl>
                    
                    <bibl>“London Editors Who Are Women.” 
                        <emph rend="italic">Review of Reviews</emph>, 
                        vol. 27, no. 161, May 1903, p. 485.</bibl>
                    
                    <bibl>O’Connor, Elizabeth. “Pamela Colman Smith’s 
                        Performative Primitivism.” 
                        <emph rend="italic">Caribbean Irish Connections: Interdisciplinary Perspectives</emph>, 
                        edited by Alison Donnell, Maria McGarrity, and Evelyn 
                        O’Callaghan, University of the West Indies, 2015.</bibl>
                    
                    <bibl>---. “‘We Disgruntled Devils Don’t Please Anybody’: 
                        Pamela Colman Smith, <emph rend="italic">The Green Sheaf</emph>, 
                        and Female Literary Networks.” <emph rend="italic">South Carolina Review</emph>, 
                        vol. 48, no. 2, Spring 2016, pp. 72-89.</bibl>
                    
                    <bibl>Parsons, Melinda Boyd. 
                        <emph rend="italic">To All Believers: The Art of Pamela Colman Smith</emph>. 
                        Catalogue of the Exhibition, Delaware Art Museum, 1975. </bibl>
                    
                    <bibl>“Pamela Colman Smith.” <emph rend="italic">The Lamp</emph>, 
                        vol. 26, 1903. Reprinted in Kaplan et al, p. 180.</bibl>
                    
                    <bibl>Pyne, Kathleen A. <emph rend="italic">Modernism and the Feminine Voice: Georgia O’Keefe and the Women of the Stieglitz Circle</emph>, 
                        University of California Press, 2007.</bibl>
                    
                    <bibl>Waite, Arthur Edward. <emph rend="italic">The Pictorial Key to the Tarot</emph>. 
                        U.S. Games, 2008.</bibl>
                    
                    <bibl>“Writers and Readers: Illustrated Notes of 
                        Authors, Books and the Drama.” <emph rend="italic">The Reader</emph>, 
                        vol. 2, no. 4, September 1903, pp. 331-32.</bibl>
                    
                    <bibl>Yeats, William Butler. <emph rend="italic">The Collected Letters of W.B. Yeats</emph>, 
                        vol. 3 (1901-1904), <emph rend="italic">Electronic Edition</emph>, 2002.</bibl>
                    
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