First Name | Last Name | Bio | Gender | Occupation | Born | Died | |
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Alix |
Strachey |
‘I caught Alix in profile & saw her old, masterly, advanced’, wrote Virginia Woolf in her diary (Diary 2:135-136) and she was right: Alix Strachey was to become masterly and advanced but her role as one of the first Br |
Female | Translator, Writer, Psychoanalyst | 4 June 1892 | 28 April 1973 |
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Jane |
Gregory |
Worked in the Foreign Rights Department at The Hogarth Press. |
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Willa |
Muir |
Willa Muir, née Wilhelmina Johnston Anderson, was called Minnie as a child and sometimes published under the name Agnes Neill Scott. |
Female | Translator, Writer | 1890 Mar 13th | 1970 May 22nd |
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Storer |
Lunt |
Storer Boardman Lunt was born on July 8th, 1897 in Portland, Maine. Lunt lived a relatively quiet and modest personal life. At the age of 21, he briefly joined the army in World War I in field artillery. |
Male | Press Worker, Publisher | 1897 Jul 8th | 1977 Sep 10th |
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Barrington |
Gates |
Sidney Barrington “Barry” Gates was a scientist, an artist, a father and a friend. During his lifetime he wrote over 150 journal articles in the aerodynamic field, multiple collections of poetry, short plays, and contributed to various magazines as a book critic. |
Male | Aviation Consultant, Scientist | 1893 | 1973 |
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Ruth |
Manning-Sanders |
Ruth Manning-Sanders (née Ruth Vernon Manning), writer, was born on 21st August 1886 in Swansea and died on 12th October 1988 in Penzance. She was the third and youngest daughter of John Edmondson Manning, a Unitarian minister, and Emma Manning (neé Browne Brock). |
Female | Writer | 1886 Aug 21st | 1988 Oct 12th |
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Robert |
Graves |
Robert von Ranke Graves (1895–1985) was a poet, lecturer and novelist born in Wimbledon on July 24th 1895 to Alfred Perceval Graves (1846–1931) and Amalie Elizabeth Sophie (1857–1951). |
Male | Academic, Critic, Poet, Publisher, Writer | 1895 | 1985 |
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Richard |
Kennedy |
Richard Kennedy was sixteen when he started working at the Hogarth Press in 1928. He had come straight out of Marlborough College, having failed to pass the exams that would have allowed him to stay. |
Male | Book Illustrator | 1910 Apr 9th | 1989 Feb 11th |
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Rebecca |
West |
Rebecca West was born Cicely Isabel Fairfield in 1892. |
Female | Critic, Journalist, Writer | 1892 Dec 21st | 1983 Mar 15th |
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Rainer Maria |
Rilke |
Rainer Maria Rilke was one of the most significant modernists to write in German. Born in Prague, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he escaped the military career expected by his father and devoted himself to literature. |
Male | Novelist, Poet | 1875 Dec 4th | 1926 Dec 29th |
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Olive |
Moore |
Olive Moore is a mystery. She first appears on the literary record in the 1920s as a journalist, penning at least 37 articles forthe Daily Sketch, a British tabloid, from 1923 to 1934. |
Female | Journalist, Novelist | 21 February 1901 | 24 November 1979 |
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Mulk Raj |
Anand |
Mulk Raj Anand (12 Dec. 1905- 28 Sept. 2004) was a prolific novelist, critic, cultural historian, and political activist whose career spanned several tumultuous eras in Indian history and crossed divides between cultures, castes, and continents. |
Male | 1905 Dec 12th | 2004 Sep 28th | |
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Maria |
Jolas |
Maria Jolas (née McDonald) grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, with a “traditional liberal Jeffersonian southern upbringing” in a “large family, neither rich nor poor.”[1] After attending boarding school in New York, she left the United Sta |
Female | Editor, Translator, Writer | 1893 Jan 12th | 1987 Mar 4th |
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Margaret |
Miller |
Margaret Stevenson Miller was born in 1896 and was not only a scholar, but also one of the pioneers for the fight against legislation preventing married women from retaining their jobs. Miller attended Edinburgh University, where she received her Masters degree and Bachelor’s of commerce. |
Female | Academic, Activist, Writer | 1896 | 1978 Mar 4th |
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Libby |
Benedict |
Libby Benedict (17 June 1903-15 January 1990) was a Jewish-American writer active during the pre- and post-World War II period. Dates of her birth and death seem to be accepted, but there are other confusions about parentage and name. |
Female | Journalist, Novelist, Short Story Writer, Translator | 1903 Jun 17th | 1990 Jan 15th |
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Katherine |
Mansfield |
Katherine Mansfield (originally Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp) was born into a well-to-do family in Wellington, New Zealand on 14 October 1888, the third of five children. |
Female | Writer | 1888 Oct 14th | 1923 Jan 9th |
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Julian |
Bell |
Julian Bell (1908-1937) was the elder son of Vanessa and Clive Bell and the nephew of Virginia Woolf. As such he literally grew up at the very heart of Bloomsbury. |
Male | Poet | 1908 Feb 4th | 1937 Jul 18th |
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John Maynard |
Keynes |
John Maynard Keynes (‘Maynard’) was an economist, investor, administrator and policymaker, famous for his innovations in economic theory, and for his work at Britain’s finance ministry, H.M. Treasury, where he helped to fund two world wars and to negotiate two peaces. |
Male | Economist | 5 June 1883 | 21 April 1946 |
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John |
Banting |
John Banting was born in London in 1902. His father was a teacher and a bookbinder. Banting trained as a painter with Bernard Meninsky in London and at the free academies in Paris. As a young artist, he was influenced by Vorticism and later turned to Surrealism. His studio was in Fitzroy Squa |
Male | Artist, Book Illustrator | 1902 May 12th | 1972 Jan 30th |
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Franz |
von Ullman |
Hungarian literary agent or publisher |