First Name | Last Name | Bio | Gender | Occupation | Born | Died | |
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Jane |
Gregory |
Worked in the Foreign Rights Department at The Hogarth Press. |
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Franz |
von Ullman |
Hungarian literary agent or publisher |
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Mrs |
Cartwright |
Mrs Cartwright worked at the Hogarth Press as a manager for five years between July 1925 and March 1930. Despite staying at the Press longer than most workers, she is hardly mentioned in either J.H. |
Female | Manager | ||
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Marjorie Thomson |
Joad |
From Nicola Wilson and Helen Southworth, 'Women Workers at the Hogarth Press (c. 1917-25)', Women in Print, vol 2 (Peter Lang, 2022) |
Female | Manager | ||
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Denis Liddell |
Ireland |
http://www.newulsterbiography.co.uk/index.php/home/printPerson/734 |
Male | Writer, Activist, Politician | 07/29/1894 | 09/23/1974 |
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Ahmed |
Ali |
Ahmed Ali was born on 1 July 1910 in Delhi, India. He was born to Syed Shujauddin, a civil servant, and Ahmad Kaniz Asghar Beg. Ali completed his primary schooling moving around different cities before enrolling at Aligarh Muslim University in 1926, where he first took a class in English poetry. |
Male | Academic, Critic, Diplomat, Novelist, Poet, Translator, Radio | 1 July 1910 | 14 January 1994 |
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Charlotte |
Mew |
Charlotte Mary Mew (1869-1928) was a poet, fiction writer, and dramatist born in Bloomsbury, London on November 15th, 1869 to architect Frederick Mew (1833-1898) and his wife, Anna Maria Kendall (1837-1923). Mew’s childhood was altogether a happy one. |
Female | Poet, Writer | 1869 Nov 15th | 1928 Mar 24th |
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Ivan |
Bunin |
The Bunin family lived in Voronezh until 1874 before moving to the family estate in Butyriki in the Oryol province of central Russia when Ivan was four years old. He lived here and was tutored by amateur artist and musician Nikolai Romashkov until August 1881 when he started school. |
Male | Writer | 1870 Oct 22nd | 1953 Nov 8th |
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Caroline Jane Mary |
Hubback |
C.J.M. Hubback worked as a translator for Sigmund Freud in the 1920s. Beyond this, little else was known until recently. |
Female | Translator, Writer | 1871 Aug 17th | 1959 |
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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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Clive |
Bell |
Clive Bell was born in East Shefford, Berkshire on 16th September 1881. His parents were William Heward Bell and Hannah Taylor Cory. They had three other children: Cory and Lorna (elder) and Dorothy (younger). |
Male | Critic, Writer | 1881 | 1964 |
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Franz |
Kafka |
Books, Franz Kafka said, “must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us” (Letters 16). Kafka was born in Prague in 1883. The oldest son of Hermann and Julie Kafka, he had three sisters, Valli, Elli, and Ottla, and two brothers who died in infancy. |
Male | Writer | 1883 Jul 3rd | 1924 Jun 3rd |
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Hugh |
Walpole |
Hugh Seymour Walpole was born on 13 March 1884 in Parnell, a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. His father was the Revd George Henry Somerset Walpole, the first Precentor of Truro Cathedral. |
Male | Writer | 1884 | 1941 |
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Harold |
Nicolson |
Harold George Nicolson was born in 1886 in Tehran and died in 1968 at Sissinghurst Castle. |
Male | Diplomat, Politician, Writer | 1886 | 1968 |
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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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Cecil Nathan Sidney |
Woolf |
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Male | 1887 | 1917 | |
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Hope |
Mirrlees |
Hope (Helen) Mirrlees, poet, novelist, biographer and translator, was born April 8, 1887, at Erpingham near Chislehurst, Kent, the eldest child of William Julius Mirrlees and Emily Mirrlees (née Moncrieff). |
Female | Biographer, Novelist, Poet, Writer | 1887 Apr 8th | 1978 Aug 1st |
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James |
Strachey |
Journalist, psychoanalyst, translator, and member of the Bloomsbury Group, James Beaumont Strachey was born to Sir Richard and Lady Strachey on 26 September 1887 as the youngest of thirteen children. |
Male | Translator | 1887 Sep 26th | 1967 Apr 25th |
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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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Thomas |
Eliot |
A poet, dramatist, critic, editor, and publisher, Thomas Stearns (T. S.) Eliot (September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965) ranks among the most influential figures in twentieth-century European letters. Born in St. |
Male | Writer | 1888 Sep 26th | 1965 Jan 4th |