New Writing
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New Writing was a popular literary periodical in book format founded in 1936 by John Lehmann and committed to anti-fascism.The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, Volume 1 – An Age Like This 1939–1940, p. 250. Penguin
It featured leading poets and writers of the day such as W.H. Auden, V.S. Pritchett,[http://global.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/335193/John-Lehmann "John Lehmann"] Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 28 December 2013. Christopher Isherwood, Tom Wintringham, Stephen Spender,Lehmann, John [https://books.google.com/books?id=96_PAAAAMAAJ&q=spender Folios of New Writing, Issue 1, p. 9. Hogarth Press, 1940] At Google Books. Retrieved 23 December 2013. Ahmed Ali,[https://books.google.com/books?id=WjPofDcwmtsC&q=ahmed&pg=PT274 Orwell and Politics. Penguin UK, 2001] At Google Books. Retrieved 23 December 2013. Jim Phelan, Rex Warner, and B. L. Coombes.Steve Ellis, British writers and the approach of World War II. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. {{ISBN|9781107054585}} (p. 175) New Writing also published articles about Mass-Observation by Tom Harrisson.
After having been approached by Lehmann to contribute a piece to the periodical, George Orwell developed a "sketch" he had had in mind for some time, and which appeared as "Shooting an Elephant", first published in the second number of the periodical, in Autumn 1936. A second piece by Orwell, "Marrakech", appeared in the Christmas 1939 edition.The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, Volume 1 – An Age Like This 1939–1940, p. 426. Penguin
''Penguin New Writing''
With New Writing's future uncertain, Lehmann wrote New Writing in Europe for Pelican Books, a critical summary of the writers of the 1930s. Wintringham reintroduced Lehmann to Allen Lane of Penguin Books, who secured paper for Penguin New Writing, a monthly book-magazine, this time as a paperback, and which survived until 1950.