Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan.
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Occupation
Virginia Woolf
Thus they founded the Hogarth Press
. The Excelsior Printing and Supply Company
charged £19.5s.5d. for a small hand press, some type, and an instruction booklet; but when the press arrived, on 24 April, it...
Textual Production
Virginia Woolf
The Hogarth Press
published VW
's third novel, Jacob's Room: both a literary experiment and an elegy, for Thoby
and all the young men lost in the Great War, a protest against the...
Friends, Associates
Virginia Woolf
They developed a relationship that was competitive yet sustaining and essential to both. In August 1920 Woolf commented on Mansfield in her diary: a woman caring as I care for writing is rare enough I...
Textual Production
Virginia Woolf
VW
published The Common Reader, her first volume of collected essays, with her own Hogarth Press
, in an edition of 1,250 copies. A second impression of 1,000 copies was issued in November.
Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Editors Bell, Anne Olivier and Andrew McNeillie, Hogarth Press.
3: 12n17
Kirkpatrick, Brownlee Jean. A Bibliography of Virginia Woolf. Clarendon Press.
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Friends, Associates
Virginia Woolf
Leonard Woolf wrote to Eliot, whose Prufrock and Other Observations he had read, to invite him to send some work to the Hogarth Press
. The letter led to a meeting, and ultimately to the...
Textual Production
Virginia Woolf
VW
published another volume of literary essays, The Second Common Reader (later sometimes appearing as The Common Reader, Second Series), with the Hogarth Press
.
Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. Hogarth Press.
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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...
Textual Production
Virginia Woolf
VW
published her novel Mrs. Dalloway with her own Hogarth Press
. Two thousand copies were printed. The American edition was published the same day by Harcourt, Brace and Company
.
Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. Hogarth Press.
2: 237
Kirkpatrick, Brownlee Jean. A Bibliography of Virginia Woolf. Clarendon Press.
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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.
Publishing
Virginia Woolf
VW
published her novel To the Lighthouse with the Hogarth Press
; the US edition came out on the same day, but the two texts were far from identical.
Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Editors Bell, Anne Olivier and Andrew McNeillie, Hogarth Press.
3: 127n5
Woolf, Virginia. “Introduction”. To the Lighthouse. The original holograph draft, edited by Susan Dick, University of Toronto Press, pp. 11-35.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Virginia Woolf
Vita gave [VW
] the central relationship of her forties, a relationship VW
celebrated in Orlando.
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus.
522
In addition to their personal emotional relationship, the two were successfully involved professionally. From November...
Textual Production
Virginia Woolf
VW
published with the Hogarth PressOrlando, A Biography (a fictional biography which is also a spoof literary history).
Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Editors Bell, Anne Olivier and Andrew McNeillie, Hogarth Press.
3: 199
Residence
Virginia Woolf
Virginia was keen to regain access to the amenities of London—music, the British Museum
, social life (her delight in parties, she wrote, was a piece of jewellery I inherit from my mother)
Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Editors Bell, Anne Olivier and Andrew McNeillie, Hogarth Press.
2: 250
Timeline
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.