JB
's Antiquarian Prejudice was published by the Hogarth Press
.
Woolmer, J. Howard, and Mary E. Gaither. A Checklist of the Hogarth Press, 1917-1946. Woolmer/Brotherson.
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Reception
Rupert Brooke
Virginia Woolf
hated the memoir by Marsh which appeared in the London Collected Poems. She called Marsh's image of RB
a hairdresser's block. A memoir by Maurice Brown
published at Chicago in 1927...
Publishing
Christine Brooke-Rose
The revision of this novel was done partly at the home of Muriel Spark
and Penelope Jardine
in Tuscany. Spark, who had just met Brooke-Rose again after years out of touch, helped her search...
Textual Production
Dorothy Bussy
DB
published her autobiographical lesbian novel, Olivia, with the Hogarth Press
. The work carries the pseudonymous ascription by Olivia.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Clapp, Susannah, and Dorothy Bussy. “Afterword”. Olivia, Virago, pp. 111-14.
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...
Textual Production
A. S. Byatt
ASB
published, with the Hogarth Press
(now an imprint of her regular publishers, Chatto and Windus
), another novel: Still Life, a sequel to The Virgin in the Garden.
Woolmer, J. Howard, and Mary E. Gaither. A Checklist of the Hogarth Press, 1917-1946. Woolmer/Brotherson.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Dora Carrington
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...
Textual Production
Dora Carrington
Carrington took on other work for the Press
: she designed numerous paper book covers with linoleum cuts (because easier to work with and less expensive than wood); in 1921 she created the cover (with...
Leonard Woolf's decision proved a mistake. The book was not only praised to the skies by young, advanced reviewers, but also made the secondary Book of the Month for May by the newly-formed Book Society
March 1908: Mary Louisa Gordon, who had qualified as...
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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 et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
By March 1913: Leonard Woolf published the first of his...
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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...
June 1913: At the invitation of Margaret Llewelyn Davies,...
Autumn 1924: Educator A. S. Neill, who had been running...
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Autumn 1924
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...
January 1927: The Hogarth Press published Freud's The Ego...
February 1931: Margaret Thomas edited for the Hogarth Press...
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February 1931
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...
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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-annual New...
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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.