MHVR
's essay Leisured Women (influenced by Thorstein Veblen
's The Theory of the Leisure Class, 1899) was published by the Hogarth Press
as one of the Hogarth Essays, Second Series.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda,. Notes on the Way. Books for Libraries Press.
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Textual Production
Flora Macdonald Mayor
FMM
's second major novel, The Rector's Daughter, appeared from the Hogarth Presson a commission basis, with the help of Leonard
and Virginia Woolf
.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
43695 (4 July 1924): 10
Williams, Merryn. Six Women Novelists, Macmillan.
45
Publishing
Hope Mirrlees
The Hogarth Press
published HM
's avant-garde poem Paris, in an edition of 175 copies, as one of its earliest publications.
Woolmer, J. Howard, and Mary E. Gaither. A Checklist of the Hogarth Press, 1917-1946. Woolmer/Brotherson.
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Briggs, Julia. “The Wives of Herr Bear”. London Review of Books, pp. 24-5.
Woolmer, J. Howard, and Mary E. Gaither. A Checklist of the Hogarth Press, 1917-1946. Woolmer/Brotherson.
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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.
2: 331
Textual Production
Willa Muir
The Hogarth Press
published WM
's essay Women: An Inquiry, the first of her writings on gender, in its Hogarth Essays series.
In a recent collection the title is spelled Women: An Enquiry.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Woolmer, J. Howard. A Checklist of the Hogarth Press, 1917-1938. Hogarth Press.
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Publishing
Willa Muir
The Hogarth Press
published WM
's autobiography, Belonging: A Memoir.
Muir, Willa. Belonging. Hogarth Press.
title-page
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(13 January 1968): 21
Textual Production
Kathleen Nott
The Hogarth Press
published KN
's first novel, which was titled Mile End after the poor district of East London where she had been doing social work.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
48137 (28 October 1938): 28
Textual Production
Edna O'Brien
EOB
's Virginia: A Play, which had already attracted favourable reviews on stage, was published by the Hogarth Press
.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
1982
O’Brien, Edna. Virginia. Hogarth Press.
title-page
Publishing
Kathleen Raine
KR
sent the Hogarth Press
the manuscript of a book of poems, but they did not publish her, either at that time or later.
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press.
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Occupation
Kathleen Raine
Julian Bell
recommended during the 1930s that the Hogarth Press
should take KR
on as an employee, but they did not follow his advice.
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press.