Rebecca West's The Strange Necessity, Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas, and Mary Colum's From These Roots were perceived by their authors to be central to discussions concerning modernist aesthetics and politics in the modern period. Focusing on these non-fiction works, my dissertation analyzes the complex ways in which these writers sought to establish themselves as serious literary and social critics in an aesthetic environment that both trivialized women's writing and feminized promotional efforts. West, Woolf, and Colum used their unique understandings of criticism and its relationship to the literary marketplace to construct and perform personae through which they assessed modern culture. Around the same time that these writers performed these personae in their book-length works, they also published revised portions of these books as periodical articles. In my dissertation, I argue that West, Woolf, and Colum altered their performed personae in these recirculated versions to address problems they understood to be specifically associated with female authorship. By attending to Colum and overlooked works by West and Woolf, I uncover a repeated use of re-mediation as a mechanism for managing female literary authority. Aaron Jaffe posits in Modernism and the Culture of Celebrity that modernist scholarship lacks a comprehensive understanding of "the full range and extent of the practices, conventions, and institutions that regulate modernist cultural production." My dissertation joins Jaffe's work on male modernists with Faye Hammill's and Catherine Keyser's on female middlebrow authors by analyzing how female critics sought to position themselves as highbrow intellectuals. In the process, I shed light on the workings of modern print culture by tracing the transatlantic circulation and recirculation of The Strange Necessity, Three Guineas, and From These Roots and by contextualizing these works within their various discourse networks.