1. Manchester Guardian, 13 Nov. 1925, cited in The Guardian Centwy: The Twenties (London: The Guardian, 1999), p. 5.
2. Ibid.
3. G. Harrison with F. C. Mitchell and M. A. Abrams, The Home Market (London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1939), ch. 21; A.P. Wadsworth, ‘Newspaper Circulations 1800–1954’, Manchester Statistical Society Transactions, 4, Session 1954–55; C. Seymour-Ure, ‘The Press and the Party System between the Wars’, in G. Peele and C. Cook (eds), The Politics Of Reappraisal (London: Macmillan, 1975), pp. 233–9; T. Jeffery and K. McClelland, ‘A World Fit to Live In: The Daily Mail and the Middle Classes 1918–39’ in J. Curran, A. Smith and P. Wingate (eds), Impacts and Influences: Essays on Media Power in the Twentieth Century (London: Methuen, 1987), pp. 28–39.
4. On the significance of the press in British culture, see A. Bingham, Family Newspapers? Sex, Private Life, and the British Popular Press, 1918–78 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 15–28. For a useful summary of agenda-setting and interpretative frameworks, see C. McCullagh, Media Power: A Sociological Introduction, (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002).
5. See, for example, B. Melman, Women and the Popular Imagination in the Twenties: Flappers and Nymphs (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1988); D. Beddoe, Back to Home and Duty: Women Between the Wars 1918–39 (London: Pandora, 1989), p. 8; M. Pugh, Women and the Women’s Movement 1914–59 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992), chs 4, 7; C. Law, Suffrage and Power: The Women’s Movement 1918–28 (London: I.B. Tauris, 1997), p. 205; S. Bruley, Women in Britain since 1900 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999), p. 62.