ABSTRACT
First, Figure 1.1 reveals connections between women associated with Time and Tide who form what might more accurately be described as a composite web of multiple networks or smaller friendship groups. Its irregular appearance should be seen to represent 'uneven and changing patterns and textures of friendship' in a fabric of interconnections revealing 'knots and breaks, slacks and tensions' over the passage of time.5 Using this framework, Cicely Hamilton, Winifred Holtby, E.M. Delafield and Rebecca West 'can be woven in time and again to places, moments and campaigns' during the course of a decade or more.6 As Directors of the paper, as well as regular contributors, these women form the dense part of the fabric of Time and Tide and were among those who joined Lady Rhondda on annual holidays in the South of France. With Lady Rhondda, Hamilton, Holtby and West were also active in new feminist organizations of the period, including the Six Point Group, which was established in association with Time and Tide in 1921.7
For other women associated with the paper, looser or temporary connections can be projected, for example Elizabeth Robins who was one of its founders and a Director until 1923, and Helen Archdale who was the paper's first editor until 1926. These presences within the web mark temporary periods of affiliation to Time and Tide, but nonetheless demonstrate the substantial commitment of women instrumental to the paper's development during its early years. The connections of Naomi Mitchison and Stella Benson were also temporary; each published in Time and Tide roughly between the years 1928 to 1933. But these connections were also less strong; as contributors only Benson and Mitchison remained outside Time and Tide's inner circle of editorial and policy decision-making. The connection of Storm Jameson to the paper (who was not a regular contributor in any period) was even more fragile. But Jameson's authorship of a book review published in Time and Tide in 1931, and her presence at a public reception given by Time and Tide the same year, shows her to have had a point of connection at this moment in time.8
