[Vwoolf] An urgent query, please

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Dear Sir or Madam,
   Sorry to trouble you. My name is Chen Xu, a Ph.D candidate at the English department of Beijing Foreign Studies University. I wonder if you could do me a favour? I have some difficulty in understanding the red short quotations that I am using in my writing as is attached in the email. They are parts of John Lehmann's journal taken from page 84 in his biography John Lehmann: A Pagan Adventure. The context is Lehmann's conflicts with the Woolfs which trigger his departure from Hogarth Press in 1932 and also consolidate his determination to launch a magazine which turns out to be New Writing.  So my questions are
1. What does the "pretence-new of the pseudo-American" mean in the first item? It seems most puzzling.
2. Do you think the powerhouse just off the boulevard might refer to Hogarth Press or probably the Bloomsbury Group? I'm afraid it should be a symbol here.
 Thank you very much for your time and attention.
All the best,
Chen Xu














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