John Lehmann

Standard Name: Lehmann, John

Connections

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Occupation Virginia Woolf
VW signed an agreement with John Lehmann , selling her share in the Hogarth Press for £3,000; from now on Lehmann was Leonard 's partner in the press.
Gaither, Mary E., and J. Howard Woolmer. “The Hogarth Press: 1917-1938”. A Checklist of the Hogarth Press, 1917-1938, Hogarth Press, pp. 3-24.
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Textual Production Virginia Woolf
VW 's final novel, Between the Acts, appeared posthumously from the Hogarth Press . John Lehmann had read the manuscript in March and announced it as forthcoming; she had then taken steps to withdraw...
Occupation Virginia Woolf
Once the press was repaired they printed their handbill. Their first book (Two Stories, containing Virginia's The Mark on the Wall and Leonard's Three Jews) had to be set up and printed...
politics Virginia Woolf
Through the 1930s, Woolf struggled to define herself and her work against the rise of Fascism in Europe, to chart the relationship between artistic and political tasks. She and her Bloomsbury friends began to be...
Textual Production Amabel Williams-Ellis
Anthologization Dorothy Wellesley
Horses, having gone forward into Poems of Ten Years, 1924-1934, was selected by W. B. Yeats for The Oxford Book of Modern Verse, 1935, and by Philip Larkin for The Oxford Book...
Textual Production Dorothy Wellesley
Under her editorship the list included Frances Cornford , Joan Adeney Easdale , Ida Graves , Vita Sackville-West , Margaret Thomas (as editor), Julian Bell , Cecil Day-Lewis , John Lehmann , F. L. Lucas
Education Julia Strachey
Her schooldays spanned most of the first world war. Her (predominantly unhappy) experiences at Bedales informed the autobiographical fiction she wrote later in life, which John Lehmann published in 1942.
Strachey, Julia, and Frances Partridge. Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey. Little, Brown.
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Textual Production Julia Strachey
JS 's acquaintance John Lehmann issued a number of her texts: in addition to The Man on the Pier (1951), he published in the New Writing, in 1940 and 1942-3 respectively, Strachey's stories Fragments...
Reception Edith Sitwell
Façade is often played (at least in the form of excerpts) on the radio in several countries. The online Poetry Archive, however, features Still Falls the Rain in a recording masterminded in 1946 by...
Friends, Associates Edith Sitwell
In Paris ES frequented Sylvia Beach 's bookshop. She saw more than before of Gertrude Stein , whom she liked for her personal qualities but called the last writer whom any other writer in the...
Textual Production Edith Sitwell
John Lehmann and Derek Parker had published an earlier collection with the same title in 1970, but it was less valuable than it could have been because Edith's surviving brother, Sacheverell, decreed that all family...
Literary responses May Sinclair
MS herself judged this novel probably in some ways the only decent thing I've ever done or shall do.
Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press.
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Because writing it was delving into her own past consciousness, she found the effort exhausting...
Reception Vita Sackville-West
Leonard Woolf (without Virginia to consult with, but with the full support of John Lehmann ) turned down Grand Canyon. So did Heinemann , for the same reasons: the potential blow to British morale...
Publishing Iris Murdoch
Publisher John Lehmann rejected IM 's translation of Raymond Queneau 's existentialist novel Pierrot mon ami, which she had been working on since the spring.
Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins.
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Timeline

Spring 1936: John Lehmann launched the semi-annual New...

Writing climate item

Spring 1936

John Lehmann launched the semi-annualNew Writing, which was later published by the Hogarth Press as Folios of New Writing, 1940-1, and as New Writing and Daylight, 1942-6. With it was associated...

1946: John Lehmann founded his own publishing house...

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1946

John Lehmann founded his own publishing house at 6 Henrietta Street, London.

Texts

Lehmann, John. In My Own Time. Little, Brown, 1969.
Lehmann, Rosamond. “The Red-Haired Miss Daintreys”. Folios of New Writing, Spring 1940, edited by John Lehmann, 1stst ed, Hogarth Press, 1940.