First Name | Last Name | Bio | Gender | Occupation | Born | Died | |
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Blanche |
Knopf |
Blanche Wolf Knopf was an American publisher who served as vice president and director of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. from 1918 to 1957 and was the firm’s president from 1957 until her death in 1966. |
Female | Publisher | 30 July 1894 | 4 June 1966 |
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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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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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Frank |
Prewett |
Canadian war poet Frank James Prewett (nicknamed “Toronto”) was born August 24, 1893 near Mt. Forest, Ontario on his maternal grandfather’s farm. This son of Arthur H. |
Writer | 1893 Feb 24th | 1962 Feb 16th | |
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Charles |
Davies |
Charles Davies was a Welsh-born writer, poet, and lecturer. He was born in 1901 in Penclawdd, Glamorganshire. He began his studies at the University College, Aberystwyth. |
Male | Academic, Writer | 1901 | 1953 |
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Charles |
Prentice |
Charles Harold Curtis Prentice was an influential British publisher who worked for Chatto & Windus from 1914-1935, where he replaced Percy Spalding as a senior |
Male | Publisher | 1891 Nov 4th | 1949 Jun 30th |
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Edward |
McKnight Kauffer |
E. |
Male | Artist, Book Illustrator | 1890 | 1954 |
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Beatrice |
Hasting |
Few people know of Beatrice Hastings today, although she was one of modernism’s most complicated and memorable figures. |
Female | Editor, Writer | 27 January 1879 | 30 October 1943 |
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Frances |
Partridge |
Frances Partridge (née Marshall) attended the progressive school Bedales where she became a good friend of Julia Strachey (whose biography she would later write). After graduating from Newnham College, Cambridge University, in |
Female | Translator, Writer | 1900 Mar 15th | 2004 Feb 5th |
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Francesca |
Allinson |
Francesca Allinson (known as Fresca) was born Enid Ellen Pulvermacher Allinson in 1902. She was the fifth child of early whole foods advocate Dr T.R. |
Female | Writer | 1902 Aug 20th | 1945 Apr 7th |
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Fredegond |
Shove |
Fredegond Shove (née Maitland) was born at Downing College, Cambridge in 1889. |
Female | Poet, Writer | 1899 | 1949 Sep |
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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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Franz |
von Ullman |
Hungarian literary agent or publisher |
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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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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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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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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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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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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 |