“If only she is able to be sincere enough; and rather brave!”

Emphasising the courage and honesty required for women to speak truly in verse · Editorial preface to the Woman’s Number of Others: A Magazine of the New Verse, September 1916

• Courage
• Sincerity
• Women

“We have yet to hear what woman will tell of herself, and where can she tell more intimately, more immediately, than in poetry?”

Urging poetry as the most direct medium for women’s self-revelation · Editorial preface to the Woman’s Number of Others: A Magazine of the New Verse, September 1916

• Expression
• Poetry
• Women

“At present most of what we know, or think we know, of women has been found out by men.”

Highlighting the male monopoly on representations of women · Editorial preface to the Woman’s Number of Others: A Magazine of the New Verse, September 1916

• Knowledge
• Men
• Women

“These contentions are true, but everyone grants the convenience and justice of such categories as French Poetry, Spanish Poetry—Greek, German, Hindu Poetry—and is there not as great difference, in physical make-up, in psychology, custom and history, between the people called Men and the people called Women?”

Asserting real differences between men and women comparable to national literary traditions · Editorial preface to the Woman’s Number of Others: A Magazine of the New Verse, September 1916

• Difference
• Gender
• Poetry

“Art is surely sexless. There isn't man's poetry and woman's poetry. A poem must satisfy the same canons whether it happens to have been written by a man or by a woman.”

Granting the formal universality of poetry while preparing to argue for gendered experience · Editorial preface to the Woman’s Number of Others: A Magazine of the New Verse, September 1916

• Art
• Gender
• Poetry

“At present most of what we know, or think we know, of women has been found out by men. We have yet to hear what woman will tell of herself, and where can she tell more intimately than in poetry?”

Calling for women to voice their own experiences in poetry rather than remain subjects of male observation · Editorial preface to the Woman’s Number of Others: A Magazine of the New Verse, September 1916

• Expression
• Poetry
• Women