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Virginia Woolf, Hugh Walpole, the Hogarth Press, and the Book Society

Wilson, N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4843-840X (2012) Virginia Woolf, Hugh Walpole, the Hogarth Press, and the Book Society. English Literary History, 79 (1). pp. 237-6547. ISSN 1080-6547

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To link to this item DOI: 10.1353/elh.2012.0008

Abstract/Summary

This article explores the unlikely relationship and alliance between the novelists Virginia Woolf and Hugh Walpole. It examines the ways in which these typically highbrow and middlebrow writers influenced each others’ lives and work, and focuses in particular on the interactions between the Woolfs’ Hogarth Press and Walpole’s Book Society, the first book club to operate in Great Britain. The article uses a number of case studies drawn from the Hogarth Press archives to demonstrate how by the 1930s, the Hogarth Press was much more commercial in its operations and pursuits of reading markets than is often recognized.

Item Type:Article
Refereed:Yes
Divisions:Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Literature and Languages > English Literature
ID Code:25131
Publisher:John Hopkins University Press

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