First Name | Last Name | Bio | Gender | Occupation | Born | Died | |
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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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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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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 |
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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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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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Alice |
Meynell |
Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell (née Thompson) was born near London but spent much of her childhood in Italy, where the Thompson family could live more cheaply than in England.[1] Her parents provided Alice and her sister Eli |
Female | Editor, Poet, Writer | October 1847 | 27 November 1922 |
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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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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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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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Fredegond |
Shove |
Fredegond Shove (née Maitland) was born at Downing College, Cambridge in 1889. |
Female | Poet, Writer | 1899 | 1949 Sep |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 |