Their friendship was at first somewhat shaky, but warmed considerably. Writing in her diary on 6 June 1918, Woolf described DC
as such a bustling eager creature, so red & solid, & at the same...
Fictionalization
Lady Eleanor Butler
Penruddock
's version of their story sets their elopement in the middle of a ball, and gives them two exciting years in London; Colette and de Beauvoir take a triumphalist view of their assumed lesbianism...
Friends, Associates
Virginia Woolf
Harriet Shaw Weaver
had approached the Hogarth Press
about publishing Ulysses in April 1918, but the Woolfs declined, mainly because they could not have printed so massive a work themselves and because Leonard could find...
Friends, Associates
Virginia Woolf
The classical scholar Jane Ellen Harrison
made a great impact on Woolf's views on women in scholarship and women in history. The Hogarth Press
published her Reminiscences of a Student's Life, 1925.
Wellesley, Dorothy. Far Have I Travelled. James Barrie, 1952.
133
In the years after the war she formed her important...
Friends, Associates
Virginia Woolf
The Hogarth Press
began publishing Freud in 1922, and continued through the following years, mainly through their highly successful production of the International Psycho-Analytical Library.
Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan, 1989.
72, 82
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996.
During RL
's involvement with Goronwy Rees, they both encouraged novelist Henry Green
(actual name Henry Yorke
) to submit the manuscript of his Party Going to John Lehmann, who promoted it with Leonard
and...
Friends, Associates
Virginia Woolf
T. S. Eliot
visited VW
and read The Waste Land to her from manuscript. She recorded in her diary her early impressions of the poem, which the Hogarth Press
published for the first time in...
Friends, Associates
Ling Shuhua
Through her first Bloomsbury connections, LS developed working friendships with Leonard Woolf
and Vita Sackville-West
: Woolf extended his late wife
's encouragement of LS's writing and ultimately published her memoir, Ancient Melodies, with...
Friends, Associates
Hope Mirrlees
HM
probably joined this social circle through Virginia Woolf
, whom she had met by early 1919, likely through their common acquaintance with Karin Costelloe (later Stephen)
, Mirrlees's friend and Woolf's sister-in-law.
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press, 1975–1980.
2: 331
Timeline
March 1908
Mary Louisa Gordon
, who had qualified as both a physician and a midwife and had practised medicine in London since 1900, was appointed the first female prison inspector in Britain.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/, http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
By March 1913
Leonard Woolf
published the first of his two novels, The Village in the Jungle, which is set in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and relates events so far as possible from the viewpoint of view...
Educator A. S. Neill
, who had been running a progressive school at Hellerau in Germany, then in Austria, opened a school of the same kind called Summerhill
(from the name of the...
Margaret Thomas
edited for the Hogarth PressCambridge Women's Verse, an Anthology, number 20 in the Hogarth Living Poets.
April 1935
Heinemann
, publisher of Bessie Cotter by Wallace Smith
, was fined £100 after pleading guilty to a charge of obscene libel.
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...
Texts
Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. Hogarth Press, 1972.