Hogarth Press
The publisher The Hogarth Press was founded in 1917 by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. He became one of Britain's most important publishers of fiction.
The Publisher
The name goes back to her home in Richmond, in the dining room they initially put the books by hand and then used on a resurrected Minerva platen press also printed by hand. In July 1917 the production started with the delivery of Two Stories, a 34 - page booklet, each having a history of spouse contained, The Mark on the Wall by Virginia and Leonard Woolf of Three Jews. From the hobby became a company whose books were produced by commercial printers in the interwar years. In the very first four years discovered the Woolf TS Eliot. 1938 Virginia Woolf sold their publishing interests in their former lecturer, writer John Lehmann, but continued to participate in shaping the program with. The publishing house was done in partnership by Leonard Woolf and John Lehmann until 1946. After that, he was a sub-company of Chatto & Windus.
The program
In addition to the works of the Bloomsbury Group, for example, Virginia Woolf 's own works and those of John Maynard Keynes and Roger Fry, Hogarth Press published the collected works of Sigmund Freud and contemporary writers such as John Betjeman, EMForster, Robert Graves, Christopher Isherwood, Katherine Mansfield, Harold Nicolson, Gertrude Stein, Vita Sackville- West, Hugh Walpole, HG Wells and Rebecca West. In addition, published translations of foreign, especially Russian literature with authors such as Maxim Gorky, Anton Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The continent was represented by Italo Svevo's novels and poems of Rainer Maria Rilke.
Virginia Woolf was the editor of the publishing house, Leonard the merchant, who put a great need for security on the day. In addition to successfully laid authors there were some misperceptions. He refused, for example, works of Jean -Paul Sartre, WH Auden and Saul Bellow. It is often argued, Hogarth Press 've Ulysses by James Joyce refused, but Leonard Woolf was trying to find a printer for what he did not succeed.
Examples from the published list were:
- EMForster: The Story of the Siren - short story (1920 )
- Leonard Woolf: Stories of the East - Short Stories ( 1921) - printed by hand by Leonard and Virginia Woolf, handling of Dora Carrington
- T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land (1923 ) - first UK edition
- John Maynard Keynes: A Short View of Russia - Essays (1928 )
- Virginia Woolf: Orlando - Biography - (1928 )
- Laurens van der Post: In a Province ( 1934) - first book of the author
Hogarth House and later publishing addresses
The house was built in 1750 and received in 1851 initially the name Suffield House. In 1870 it was renovated and divided into the house numbers 1 and 2. Suffield House, number 2 was then from 1910 Hogarth House called, five years before the advent of the Woolf. After the first suicide attempt Virginia they were looking for a quiet place away from London, but again close enough to easily reach the city can. Virginia had fallen in love with the house, but after a second collapse had initially Leonard on March 25, 1915 to move alone. Later were added to a cook and a maid. In the air raids during World War II, the inhabitants took refuge in the basement. 1922 TS Eliot read here before a group of friends from his new work The Waste Land.
Later, Virginia was tired of the loneliness of Hogarth House and longed after closer contact to the Bloomsbury group. Nevertheless, they willingly recalled in her diary of the days there. The move into the new house in Tavistock Square 52 was held in London on 13 March 1924. The publisher found its place in the basement. The former billiard room was Virginia Woolf's study and served as paper and book stock.
In August 1939, the Hogarth Press pulled the Mecklenburgh Square 37 In September of next year, the house was severely damaged by an air raid. The Woolf outsourced from the publisher to Letchworth and moved their residence to their summer home Monk 's House in Rodmell, Sussex.
The old platen press from the early days of the Hogarth Press is in the tower at Sissinghurst Castle, the last residence of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, issued.
1934 moved just the British Fascist Union (British Union of Fascists ) their headquarters for a year to Hogarth House. Today, there resides a company that has rendered outstanding services to the renovation of the property. The address is now 34, Paradise Road.