- Hogarth Press
The Hogarth Press was founded in 1917 by Leonard and
Virginia Woolf . It was named after their house in Richmond, in which they began hand-printing books.During the inter-war years, the Hogarth Press grew from a hobby of the Woolfs to a business when they began using commercial printers. In 1938 Woolf relinquished her interest in the business and it was then run as a partnership by Leonard Woolf and
John Lehmann until 1946, when it became an associate company ofChatto & Windus .As well as publishing the works of the members of the
Bloomsbury group , the Hogarth Press was at the forefront of publishing works onPsychoanalysis and translations of foreign, especially Russian, works.Notable title history
*"Karn" (1922) and "Martha Wish-You-Ill" (1926) - poetry by
Ruth Manning-Sanders .
*"The Waste Land " byT. S. Eliot (1924) - First UK book edition.
*"In a Province" (1934) - First book byLaurens van der Post .References
*J. Howard Woolmer. "A Checklist of the Hogarth Press, 1917-1946. With a Short History of the Press" by Mary E. Gaither. Woolmer/Brotherson, 1986, 250 p.: ISBN 0913506176 (compare [http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/literary/hogarth.htm "Hogarth Press Publications, 1917-1946" at Duke University Library] that uses the numbering of the Woolmer publication)
George Spater, A marriage of true minds: An intimate portrait of Leonard and Virginia Woolf (A Harvest/HBJ book) (Paperback ISBN 0156572990)
External links
* [http://www.clemson.edu/caah/cedp/Gilllespie.pdf "Virginia Woolf, the Hogarth Press, and the detective novel"] (
PDF ), essay by Diane F. Gillespie in the " [http://www.clemson.edu/caah/cedp/scrintro.htm South Carolina Review] ", issue 35.2, 2003.
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