The United Co-Operative was an amateur press journal founded in 1918 by H. P. Lovecraft, W. Paul Cook, Winifred V. Jackson, and two others. It was published under the auspices of the United Amateur Press Association, whose president Lovecraft had been in 1917. The journal published Lovecraft's prose poem "Memory" and Lovecraft and Jackson's collaboration "The Crawling Chaos".
The publication was founded to promote Lovecraft's idea of cooperative papers--"papers in which a number of individuals would pool their resources, both financial and literary," as S. T. Joshi later put it. [1]
Just three issues of the Co-Operative were produced--in December 1918, June 1919, and April 1921. "Memory" was published in the second issue; "The Crawling Chaos" appeared in the third and final issue, with the authors credited as Elizabeth Berkeley and Lewis Theobald, Jun. Other contributors included Rheinhart Kleiner and Samuel Loveman, who would be important figures in Lovecraft's life.
External Link[]
- The United Co-Operative at ZineWiki.
References[]
- ↑ ZineWiki, "The United Co-Operative".