Reedy's Mirror was a literary journal in St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis is an independent city on the eastern border of Missouri, United States. With a population of 319,294, it was the 58th-largest U.S. city at the 2010 U.S. Census. The Greater St...

 in the fin de siècle

Fin de siècle

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 era. It billed itself "The Mid-West Weekly".

Overview

The journal first appeared on February, 25 1891 under the title of the Sunday Mirror, published by The Sunday Mirror Company in St. Louis. On February 28, 1895, the title was changed for The Mirror. On October 1896, it was bought back by James Campbell, and William Marion Reedy became the editor on December 1896. He operated on a shoestring budget. The journal was renamed Reedy's Paper until May 30, 1913, when it became known as Reedy's Mirror. An offspring of that journal called The Mirror was revived from 1920 to 1944, edited first by Charles J. Finger and finally by Barry Lewis.

Contributors included Robert Frost

Robert Frost

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, Edgar Lee Masters

Edgar Lee Masters

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, Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg

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, Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound

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, Vachel Lindsay

Vachel Lindsay

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, Harris Merton Lyon

Harris Merton Lyon

-Biography:Harris Merton Lyon was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1882. He attended the University of Missouri while working at a restaurant and laundrette. By the early 1900s, he moved to New York City to work as a journalist and as a short story writer...

, Sara Teasdale

Sara Teasdale

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 and Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser

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