First Name | Last Name | Bio | Gender | Occupation | Born | Died | |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Franz |
von Ullman |
Hungarian literary agent or publisher |
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Jane |
Gregory |
Worked in the Foreign Rights Department at The Hogarth Press. |