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.
25
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...
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.
34n28
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.
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
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...
Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Editors Bell, Anne Olivier and Andrew McNeillie, Hogarth Press.
3: 227n11
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
Textual Production
Virginia Woolf
VW
published her highly experimental novel The Waves with the Hogarth Press
.
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press.
4: 387n4
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...
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.
Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. Hogarth Press.
2: 245
Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan.
160
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.
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...
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press.
6: 406n2
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.
