Who founded the Hogarth Press in 1917?
"Phoenix Living Poets The Phoenix Living Poets was a series of slim books of poetry published from 1960 until 1983 by Chatto and Windus Ltd. The poets included in the series offer a cross-section of poets of the era, including some notable writers. Generally those writing were not producing the most experimental work of the era but, taken as a whole, the series covers a significant range of voices and styles. The series had its origins in the Hogarth Press, which was founded in 1917 by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. In 1946, Hogarth came under the control of Chatto and"
"Hogarth Press The Hogarth Press was a British publishing house founded in 1917 by Leonard Woolf and Virginia Woolf. It was named after their house in Richmond (then in Surrey and now in London), in which they began hand-printing books. During the interwar period, the Hogarth Press grew from a hobby of the Woolfs to a business when they began using commercial printers. In 1938 Virginia 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 of Chatto & Windus. ""Hogarth"""
"to politics and sociology. He joined the Labour Party and the Fabian Society, and became a regular contributor to the ""New Statesman"". In 1916 he wrote ""International Government"", proposing an international agency to enforce world peace. As his wife's mental health worsened, Woolf devoted much of his time to caring for her (he himself suffered from depression). In 1917 the Woolfs bought a small hand-operated printing press and with it they founded the Hogarth Press. Their first project was a pamphlet, hand-printed and bound by themselves. Within ten years the Press had become a full-scale publishing house, issuing Virginia's novels,"
"some time, and at the end of 1916 started making plans. Having discovered that they were not eligible to enroll in the St Bride School of Printing, they started purchasing supplies after seeking advice from the Excelsior Printing Supply Company on Farringdon Road in March 1917, and soon they had a printing press set up on their dining room table at Hogarth House, and the Hogarth Press was born. Their first publication was ""Two Stories"" in July 1917, inscribed ""Publication No. 1"", and consisted of two short stories, ""The Mark on the Wall"" by Virginia Woolf and ""Three Jews"" by"
"is now an imprint of The Crown Publishing Group, part of Random House Inc. As well as publishing the works of the members of the Bloomsbury group, the Hogarth Press was at the forefront of publishing works on psychoanalysis and translations of foreign, especially Russian, works. Printing was a hobby for the Woolfs, and it provided a diversion for Virginia when writing became too stressful. The couple bought a handpress in 1917 for £19 (equivalent to about £900 in 2012) and taught themselves how to use it. The press was set up in the dining room of Hogarth House, where"
"""Weir of Hermiston"" (1896) by Robert Louis Stevenson, and the first translation into English of Marcel Proust's novel ""À la recherche du temps perdu"" (""Remembrance of Things Past"", C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, 1922), amongst others. In 1946, the company took over the running of the Hogarth Press, founded in 1917 by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Active as an independent publishing house until 1969, when it merged with Jonathan Cape, it published broadly in the field of literature, including novels and poetry. It is not connected, except in the loosest historical fashion, with Pickering & Chatto Publishers. Norah Smallwood was appointed to"
"1831 Hogarth was editor of a pro-Tory newspaper the Western Luminary, then in 1832 moved to Halifax becoming the first editor of the Halifax Guardian. In 1834, he became a music critic for ""The Morning Chronicle"" newspaper in London, and in 1835 he became editor-in-chief of ""The Evening Chronicle"", a post he held for twenty years. From 1846–1866 he worked as a music critic for ""The Daily News"", a paper which was founded by the novelist Charles Dickens. He had previously met Dickens in 1834 while they were both working for the ""Morning Chronicle"". In 1836 Dickens married Hogarth's eldest"
"special exhibitions to mark the 250th anniversary of his death. William Hogarth William Hogarth FRSA (; 10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called ""modern moral subjects"", perhaps best known being his moral series ""A Harlot's Progress"", ""A Rake's Progress"" and ""Marriage A-la-Mode"". Knowledge of his work is so pervasive that satirical political illustrations in this style are often referred to as ""Hogarthian"". Hogarth was born in London to a lower middle-class family. In his youth"
"the Woolfs lived, lending its name to the publishing company they founded. In July they published their first text, a book with one story written by Leonard and the other written by Virginia. Between 1917 and 1946 the Press published 527 titles. Hogarth Press has begun producing a series of modern retellings of William Shakespeare plays, for which it has hired a variety of authors, such as Jeanette Winterson, Howard Jacobson, Anne Tyler, Margaret Atwood, Tracy Chevalier and Edward St Aubyn for ""The Winter's Tale"", ""The Merchant of Venice"", ""The Taming of the Shrew"", ""The Tempest"", ""Othello"" and ""King Lear"""
"respectively. The Hogarth Press produced a number of publication series that were affordable as well as being attractively bound and printed, and usually commissioned from well known authors. These include the initial ""Hogarth Essays"" in three series 1924–1947 (36 titles), ""Hogarth Lectures on Literature"" (2 series 1927–1951), ""Merttens Lectures on War and Peace"" (8 titles 1927–1936), ""Hogarth Living Poets"" (29 titles 1928–1937), ""Day to Day Pamphlets"" (1930–1939), ""Hogarth Letters"" (12 titles 1931–1933) and ""World-Makers and World-Shakers"" (4 titles 1937). The ""Essays"" were the first series produced by the press and include works by Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf and Gertrude Stein."
"William Hogarth William Hogarth FRSA (; 10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called ""modern moral subjects"", perhaps best known being his moral series ""A Harlot's Progress"", ""A Rake's Progress"" and ""Marriage A-la-Mode"". Knowledge of his work is so pervasive that satirical political illustrations in this style are often referred to as ""Hogarthian"". Hogarth was born in London to a lower middle-class family. In his youth he took up an apprenticeship where he specialised in engraving."
"friends, they formed the artistic and literary Bloomsbury Group. In 1912, Woolf married Leonard Woolf and in 1917 they founded the Hogarth Press, which published much of her work. The couple rented second homes in Sussex and moved there permanently in 1940. Throughout her life, Woolf was troubled by bouts of mental illness, which included being institutionalised and attempting suicide. Her illness is considered to have been bipolar disorder, for which there was no effective intervention at the time. Eventually in 1941 she committed suicide by putting rocks in her pockets and drowning herself in a river, at the age"
"education that took him through such institutions as Chicago's Crane College and Northwestern University, and New York City's Columbia University in New York City – also studying arts and sciences. Due to his father’s early death, Hogarth began work at age 15, when he became the assistant at the Associated Editors Syndicate and illustrated a series called ""Famous Churches of the World"". He worked for several years as an editor and advertising artist. This work provided steady (and, by 1929, crucial) employment. In 1929, he drew his first comic strip, ""Ivy Hemmanhaw"", for the Barnet Brown Company; in 1930 he"
"by Perrier in 1906, and rapidly became a best-selling series. Other similar sporting themes (including ""The Rules Of Cricket"") followed with equal commercial success. He married Helena Wallace (of Wadhurst, Sussex) in Lambeth in 1907, and by 1911 the couple were living at Hogarth House, Richmond Upon Thames, Surrey. Their daughter Irene Crombie was born there in 1914. In 1915, part of Hogarth House was sold to leading Bloomsbury Set socialites Leonard and Virginia Woolf, who named their hobby business the Hogarth Press after the building. Charles Crombie continued to produce illustrations for books and magazines in the UK and"
"Politically the members of Bloomsbury had liberalism and socialism leanings. Though the war dispersed Old Bloomsbury, the individuals continued to develop their careers. E. M. Forster followed his successful novels with ""Maurice"" which he could not publish because it treated homosexuality untragically. In 1915 Virginia Woolf brought out her first novel, ""The Voyage Out"". And in 1917 the Woolfs founded their Hogarth Press, which would publish T. S. Eliot, Katherine Mansfield, and many others including Virginia herself along with the standard English translations of Freud. Then in 1918 Lytton Strachey published his critique of Victorianism in the shape of four"
"daughter Catherine. One of his younger daughters, Georgina, was Dickens' housekeeper, adviser, and, after Dickens' death, the editor of ""The Letters Of Charles Dickens From 1833 To 1870"". From 1850–1864 Hogarth served as the Royal Philharmonic Society's Secretary. During the last years of his life he worked as an editor for the ""Evening Chronicle"". He died in London in 1870 at the age of 86. He is buried in the Kensal Green Cemetery. George Hogarth George Hogarth WS (6 September 1783 – 12 February 1870) was a Scottish lawyer, newspaper editor, music critic, and musicologist. He authored several books on"
"century; counting among his clients Sir Walter Scott. On 30 May 1814, Hogarth married Georgina Thomson, the daughter of music publisher and editor George Thomson, their marriage producing 10 children. In 1817, Hogarth, his brother-in-law James Ballantyne and Walter Scott bought the Edinburgh Weekly Journal. He lived then at 2 Nelson Street in Edinburgh's Second New Town. He moved to 19 Albany street in the late 1820s. He first worked as a music critic for ""The Harmonicon"" and the ""Edinburgh Courant"" magazine during the 1820s, continuing with ""The Harmonicon"" in the early 1830s after moving his family to London. In"
"in his autobiography ""Beginning Again"" (1964). In early March 1915, the couple moved again, to nearby Hogarth House, Paradise Road, after which they named their publishing house. Virginia's first novel, ""The Voyage Out"" was published in 1915, followed by another suicide attempt. Despite the introduction of conscription in 1916, Leonard was exempted on medical grounds. Between 1924 and 1940 the Woolfs returned to Bloomsbury, taking out a ten-year lease at 52 Tavistock Square, from where they ran the Hogarth Press from the basement, where Virginia also had her writing room, and is commemorated with a bust of her in the"
"impecunious young authors, including Robert Graves and E. M. Forster he knew through the Hogarth Press by commissioning them to write reviews and articles; there were others, such as Edwin Muir who had come to his attention at the Nation and whose work he would publish at Hogarth. Other contributors included Edmund Blunden, H. E. Bates, H. N. Brailsford, J. A. Hobson, Harold Laski, David Garnett, Aldous Huxley (under the pseudonym ""Autolux""), Charlotte Mew, Edith Sitwell, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and G. D. H. Cole. In 1931, it was absorbed into the Labour weekly the ""New Statesman"", which was known"
"September 1923, the Hogarth Press, a private press run by Eliot's friends Leonard and Virginia Woolf, published the first UK book edition of ""The Waste Land"" in an edition of about 450 copies, the type handset by Virginia Woolf. The publication history of ""The Waste Land"" (as well as other pieces of Eliot's poetry and prose) has been documented by Donald Gallup. Eliot, whose 1922 annual salary at Lloyds Bank was £500 ($2,215) made approximately £630 ($2,800) with ""The Dial"", Boni and Liveright and Hogarth Press publications. Eliot originally considered entitling the poem ""He do the Police in Different Voices""."
"Paul Hogarth Paul Hogarth, OBE, RA (born Arthur Paul Hoggarth) (4 October 1917 – 27 December 2001) was an English artist and illustrator. He is best known for the cover drawings that he prepared in the 1980s for the Penguin edition of Graham Greene's books. He had distant connection with William Hogarth, whose father was also born Hoggarth. Hogarth was born in Kendal, Cumbria, and aged 6 moved in 1923 with his family to Manchester. He attended the Manchester School of Art from 1934 to 1936, where he became involved in the Artists' International Association and the Communist Party of"
"Woolf, was a printing press intent on publishing items that encouraged free exchange of ideas. Leonard Woolf himself was an anti-imperialist. He also believed intellectual exchange was the same as economical exchange in material form; Dobb’s publications were both intellectual exchange through introduction and defense of Marxism, as well as a pieces of work that could be sold. Publications possibly reflected the opinions of Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Leonard Woolf later commissioned ""The Political and Social Doctrine of Communism"", and originally asked Maurice Dobb and another author, who both refused. Between “1924 and the late 1930’s, the Hogarth Press published"
"same time he got to know Edmund Yates, with whom, in his earlier years, he was constantly connected in his journalistic ventures. In 1860, over his own initials ""G.A.S."", he began writing ""Echoes of the Week"" for the ""Illustrated London News"", and continued to do so till 1886, when they were continued in a syndicate of weekly newspapers almost to his death. William Makepeace Thackeray, when editor of the ""Cornhill"", published articles by him on Hogarth in 1860, which were issued in column form in 1866; and in the former year he was given the editorship of ""Temple Bar"", which"
"unveiled in 2004 at the southwest corner of the square. Woolf lived at 52 Tavistock Square between 1924 and 1939. From there she and her husband Leonard Woolf ran the Hogarth Press, which became a prominent and influential publisher at the forefront of modernist fiction and poetry (publishing T.S. Eliot, E.M. Forster and Katherine Mansfield among others) and translating the works of Sigmund Freud into English. The square contains a memorial to the surgeon Dame Louisa Aldrich-Blake (1865 –1925), with a bust of Aldrich-Blake by Arthur George Walker on a plinth designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens. The following buildings are"
"drew ""Odd Occupations and Strange Accidents"" for Ledd Features Syndicate. As the Great Depression worsened, Hogarth relocated to New York City at the urging of friends. He found employment with King Features Syndicate in 1934, drawing Charles Driscoll’s pirate adventure ""Pieces of Eight"" (1935). In 1936 came the assignment that catapulted Hogarth’s illustration career. With ""Tarzan"", Hogarth brought together classicism, expressionism and narrative into a new form of dynamic, sequential art: the newspaper comic strip. Hogarth drew the ""Tarzan"" ""Sunday (newspaper comic strip) page"" for 12 years (1937–45; 1947–50). This work has been reprinted often, most recently by NBM Publishing."
"published Virginia's novels along with works by T. S. Eliot, Laurens van der Post, and others. The Press also commissioned works by contemporary artists, including Dora Carrington and Vanessa Bell. Woolf believed that to break free of a patriarchal society that women writers needed a ""room of their own"" to develop and often fantasised about an ""Outsider's Society"" where women writers would create a virtual private space for themselves via their writings to develop a feminist critique of society. Though Woolf never created the ""Outsider's society"", the Hogarth Press was the closest approximation as the Woolfs chose to publish books"
"her brothers was also killed in action in the Second World War. She continued to work at Chatto & Windus during the war, and became a partner in 1945. In 1947, she joined the board of the Hogarth Press, which had been bought by Chatto & Windus in 1946, and worked closely with its founder, Leonard Woolf. Among the authors under her care were Laurens van der Post, Laurie Lee, Aldous Huxley, Iris Murdoch, A. S. Byatt, Toni Morrison, Compton Mackenzie, William Sansom and Dirk Bogarde. Smallwood was appointed to the board of Chatto & Windus when it became a"
"by William Angus Knight; it promoted the theories of David Ramsay Hay. Attribution Robert Hogarth Patterson Robert Hogarth Patterson (1821–1886) was a Scottish journalist and author. Born in Edinburgh in December 1821, Patterson was educated as a civil engineer at Edinburgh high school. When quite young he started in the printing-office of his cousin, John Ballantyne, as a press corrector. In 1852 he left the printing business to become editor of the ""Edinburgh Advertiser"". In 1858 Patterson moved to London as editor, and later proprietor, of ""The Press"", owned by Benjamin Disraeli, after the death in 1857 of David Trevena"
"many English artists and satirists of the period, such as Francis Hayman, Henry Fielding, and Laurence Sterne. Hogarth died in London on 26 October 1764 and was buried at St. Nicholas Church, Chiswick, London. His friend, actor David Garrick, composed the following inscription for his tombstone: Hogarth's works were a direct influence on John Collier, who was known as the ""Lancashire Hogarth"". The spread of Hogarth's prints throughout Europe, together with the depiction of popular scenes from his prints in faked Hogarth prints, influenced Continental book illustration through the 18th and early 19th centuries, especially in Germany and France. He"
"Robert Hogarth Patterson Robert Hogarth Patterson (1821–1886) was a Scottish journalist and author. Born in Edinburgh in December 1821, Patterson was educated as a civil engineer at Edinburgh high school. When quite young he started in the printing-office of his cousin, John Ballantyne, as a press corrector. In 1852 he left the printing business to become editor of the ""Edinburgh Advertiser"". In 1858 Patterson moved to London as editor, and later proprietor, of ""The Press"", owned by Benjamin Disraeli, after the death in 1857 of David Trevena Coulton. George Henry Townsend took it over from him about 1865. About that"
"was eight his mother married the author Leslie Stephen, and had four more children: Virginia Stephen, later the author Virginia Woolf, the painter Vanessa Bell, and two sons, Thoby and Adrian Stephen. Woolf eventually accused Gerald and his elder brother, George, of having sexually abused her and Vanessa when they were children and teenagers. Woolf published her first two novels with her brother's help before forming the Hogarth Press. Gerald Duckworth was educated at Eton College and Clare College, Cambridge. In 1898, Duckworth founded the publishing company which bears his name, Gerald Duckworth and Company Ltd, in Henrietta Street, Covent"
"the United.States., including the National Cartoonist Society Advertising and Illustration Award for 1975, Magazine and Book Illustration Award for 1992, and Special Features Award for 1974, and dozens of awards internationally. He taught, wrote, created and theorized lucidly and passionately into his last days. For decades he was regularly invited to international events, frequently in a starring capacity. Shortly after attending the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 1996, Hogarth returned to Paris where he suffered heart failure, dying January 28 at age 84. 2010 The Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame Comics work includes: Non-fiction books, mainly on the principles"
"and remained there some time after the First World War. When returning to England his circle of LGBT friends and acquaintances included W. J. H. Sprott, J. R. Ackerley, Christopher Isherwood, Siegfried Sassoon, Forrest Reid and Benjamin Britten. Virginia and Leonard Woolf first moved to Hogarth House in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, where they set up the Hogarth Press. Later they moved to Monk's House in East Sussex. Katherine Mansfield and John Lehmann were LGBT acquaintances linked to Hogarth Press, the publishing company Virginia Woolf owned with her husband Leonard Woolf. After Virginia Woolf had moved to"