| First Name | Last Name | Bio | Gender | Occupation | Born |
Died |
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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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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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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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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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Cecil Nathan Sidney |
Woolf |
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Male | 1887 | 1917 | |
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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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E. M. |
Delafield |
Although best known for Diary of a Provincial Lady (1930), and its humorous portrait of a harassed, self-deprecating housewife, Delafield wore many other hats in her relatively short but busy life. |
Female | Biographer, Critic, Journalist, Novelist, Travel Writer | 19 June 1890 | 11 December 1943 |
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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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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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Anna |
D. Whyte |
Little is known about the personal life of the enigmatic author Anna D. Whyte. Believed to be born in 1909 in New Zealand, many of her early and later years remain a mystery. |
Female | Novelist | 1909 | |
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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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Franz |
von Ullman |
Hungarian literary agent or publisher |
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Jane |
Gregory |
Worked in the Foreign Rights Department at The Hogarth Press. |
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