[Vwoolf] History of Hogarth Press

Nicola Wilson n.l.wilson at reading.ac.uk
Thu Nov 8 11:00:10 EST 2018


Dear all,


Thanks Gill for sharing the initial link to Stanford's report on the Hogarth Press Order Books project, a transcription/digitisation project of the sales/order books held at University of Reading, funded by Stanford over the last year.


We are hoping to publish collaboratively on this in the near future, looking in detail at the sale and distribution of Woolf and Sackville-West's works to different individual bookshops, libraries and wholesalers across Britain, Europe, and what were then known as the 'Empire Markets'.


The story was very much written as a press release, as people have spotted, and the MAPP team weren't involved in the language of the report.  We are obviously indebted to the wealth of earlier research on the history of the Hogarth Press and I hope we do justice to some of this in our book on MAPP, Scholarly Adventures in Digital Humanities, published last year.


All best,

Nicola





Dr Nicola Wilson
Lecturer in Book and Publishing Studies
English Literature | School of Literature and Languages
Edith Morley  | Whiteknights | PO Box 218  |  Reading  |  RG6 6AA
Tel: +44 (0)118 378 5272  |  Twitter: @Nicola_LWilson

Author of Home in British Working-Class Fiction (2015)
https://www.routledge.com/Home-in-British-Working-Class-Fiction/Wilson/p/book/9781409432418




________________________________
From: Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces+n.l.wilson=reading.ac.uk at lists.osu.edu> on behalf of Brenda S. Helt via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>
Sent: 08 November 2018 15:30:07
To: 'Dr T Tate'; Woolf list
Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] History of Hogarth Press


The senior scholars involved with MAPP have long been engaged in important and very sophisticated and in-depth work on the press and its role in modernist publishing.  Their work has relied on earlier work by people like J.H. Willis Jr, who wrote Leonard and Virginia Woolf as Publishers, published in 1992.  And many others!  So it is indeed surprising to read in that article that “Until now, no one has studied in detail Woolf’s impact on the publishing industry of that era and the business networks of Hogarth Press, the printing press founded in 1917 by Woolf and her husband, Leonard Woolf, at their home in southwest London. Scholars had previously thought the press was a niche business created to publish just Woolf’s work.”  That’s patently untrue.  I know no modernist scholar who understands the Hogarth Press in that way, let alone any Woolf scholars.  And so I assume that line might have been written for a grant proposal or something?



Slàinte!



Brenda





Brenda Helt

Co-editor Queer Bloomsbury (with Madelyn Detloff)

https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-queer-bloomsbury.html





-----Original Message-----
From: Vwoolf [mailto:vwoolf-bounces at lists.osu.edu] On Behalf Of Dr T Tate via Vwoolf
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2018 7:17 AM
To: vwoolf at lists.osu.edu
Subject: [Vwoolf] History of Hogarth Press



Thanks to Gill Lowe for the news of research on the Hogarth Press going on at Stanford. The report does however ignore some very good research done over the years on this topic; eg Peter Alexander on VW and LW.



Trudi Tate

Cambridge

https://truditateblog.wordpress.com





_______________________________________________

Vwoolf mailing list

Vwoolf at lists.osu.edu<mailto:Vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>

https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osu.edu/pipermail/vwoolf/attachments/20181108/22f4c08b/attachment-0001.html>


More information about the Vwoolf mailing list