John Lehmann

Publisher John Lehmann rejected IM 's translation of Raymond Queneau 's existentialist novel Pierrot mon ami, which she had been working on since the spring.

Leonard Woolf (without Virginia to consult with, but with the full support of John Lehmann ) turned down Grand Canyon. So did Heinemann , for the same reasons: the potential blow to British morale...

MS herself judged this novel probably in some ways the only decent thing I've ever done or shall do. Because writing it was delving into her own past consciousness, she found the effort exhausting...

In Paris ES frequented Sylvia Beach 's bookshop. She saw more than before of Gertrude Stein , whom she liked for her personal qualities but called the last writer whom any other writer in the...

John Lehmann and Derek Parker had published an earlier collection with the same title in 1970, but it was less valuable than it could have been because Edith's surviving brother, Sacheverell, decreed that all family...

Façade is often played (at least in the form of excerpts) on the radio in several countries. The online Poetry Archive, however, features Still Falls the Rain in a recording masterminded in 1946 by...

Her schooldays spanned most of the first world war. Her (predominantly unhappy) experiences at Bedales informed the autobiographical fiction she wrote later in life, which John Lehmann published in 1942.

JS 's acquaintance John Lehmann issued a number of her texts: in addition to The Man on the Pier (1951), he published in the New Writing, in 1940 and 1942-3 respectively, Strachey's stories Fragments...

Horses, having gone forward into Poems of Ten Years, 1924-1934, was selected by W. B. Yeats for The Oxford Book of Modern Verse, 1935, and by Philip Larkin for The Oxford Book...

Under her editorship the list included Frances Cornford , Joan Adeney Easdale , Ida Graves , Vita Sackville-West , Margaret Thomas (as editor), Julian Bell , Cecil Day-Lewis , John Lehmann , F. L. Lucas

Contributors included Nancy Cunard , Winifred Holtby , Storm Jameson , Pamela Hansford Johnson , Naomi Mitchison , Sylvia Townsend Warner , W. H. Auden , John Lehmann , and John Strachey .

Once the press was repaired they printed their handbill. Their first book (Two Stories, containing Virginia's The Mark on the Wall and Leonard's Three Jews) had to be set up and printed...

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...

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.

VW 's final novel, Between the Acts, appeared posthumously from the Hogarth Press . John Lehmann had read the manuscript in March and announced it as forthcoming; she had then taken steps to withdraw...