#Hogarth Press

[disease]

THE DEATH OF THE MOTH VIRGINIA WOOLF | pub. 1942

#virginia woolf #the death of the moth #abstract #design #literature #hogarth press #monochrome #40s #books #u

[coochiequeens]

Ladies today do something just for you or your education.

A Room Of One’s Own Day is a momentous occasion that falls on January 25 each year, and we’re going to help you celebrate. Do you know that the book by Virginia Woolf which was the inspiration behind this holiday is more than 93 years old? A Room Of One’s Own Day celebrates the privacy of having one’s own room and is also symbolic of independence. It also reminds us that it is the privileged who have their own rooms and that we can appreciate and look after what we have. It also reminds us of the ongoing struggle for females to receive an education.

HISTORY OF A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN DAY

Adeline Virginia Woolf, one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, was born on March 25, 1882. She was the seventh of eight children born to Julia Prinsep Jackson and Leslie Stephen. Her father is said to have been the one who inspired Woolf to take up writing as a profession.

Woolf began writing in 1900. In 1912, she married Leonard Woolf, and the couple set up the Hogarth Press, which would in the future be the publishing house that released most of Woolf’s works. Her written works are said to be the inspiration behind modern-day feminist movements, and it continues to inspire young women to be independent. Though Woolf has written several masterpieces, her most famous essay is “A Room Of One’s Own” which came out in 1929. It dealt mainly with the lack of freedom of expression of women in those times. It advocated access to education for women. This novel played a key role in inspiring the feminist movements of the 1970s.

Though the exact origins of A Room Of One’s Own Day are not known, this day has been celebrated annually by millions as a day to celebrate independence and self-sustainability. Some might take the day in a literal way and celebrate it by decorating one’s own room or simply enjoying the comfort and privacy of one’s own room. Others might take it figuratively and observe this day by shutting the metaphorical door to things they are no longer interested in and celebrating independence.

HOW TO OBSERVE A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN DAY

Do something creative in your room. Your room is your kingdom. Let out your creative skills and give your new room a new look. Add new furniture. Paint the walls. Make posters. Clean your room. The idea is to renovate your room and take it to the next level.

Share it on social media. Let everyone know that you're celebrating this day. Take pictures of your room after you have refurbished it and post them on social media. This will inspire many others to celebrate this day.

Read a good book about women. Many of the rights and freedoms today’s women enjoy are new. Read a good book about the struggle and the amazing women who led the fight.

5 FACTS ABOUT THE NOVEL “A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN” THAT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND

It was made for Cambridge student societies. Woolf wrote this essay based on two papers she read for two student societies in Cambridge.

Judith was a fictional character. Woolf invented the fictional character of Judith as the sister of William Shakespeare.

It had lesbianism. One section of the book deals with a fictional female writer's relationship with another woman.

It faced criticism. The book was criticized for the sensitive content and also because many women felt that women of color faced greater prejudice and discrimination, which was not covered in the novel.

It was adapted into plays“Balancing the Moon” (2011) was one of the many plays adapted from this novel.

WHY A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN DAY IS IMPORTANT

It allows us to appreciate the freedom of having our own room. Having a room of our own is a luxury that we often take for granted. Many people in this world either don’t have a roof over their heads or are sharing a house with others. This day allows us to appreciate the luxury of having our own rooms.

It is symbolic of independence. A Room of One's Own Day is symbolic of standing on our own and being independent. This day figuratively reminds us to have our rooms, that is, to be self-sufficient and not be dependent on others.

It reminds us to close the doors to things that are detrimental to our well-being. A Room of One's Own Day is a reminder that we need to close the door to people, and also things, that are toxic and hinder our growth and success. It is a day to be introspective and clear out the junk from your metaphorical “room”.

#January 25 #A Room Of One’s Own Day #virginia woolf #Women and education #Hogarth Press #A Room Of One's Own #Balancing the Moon

[guy60660]

Hogarth Press | Public Domain Review

#design #orlando #Hogarth Press #public domain review

[thatwritererinoriordan]

#march 23 #maurice sendak #virginia woolf #hogarth press #albert camus #pinetop perkins #the velvet underground

[driftlessarearev]

Forgotten Classics: The Freaks of Mayfair (1916) by E.F. Benson

Via An infrequent feature on classic books forgotten to the mists of time. E.F. Benson (1867—1940) was the eccentric child of the Archbishop of Canterbury. A prolific writer, he’s most well known for the Mapp and Lucia series. In the literary constellation of British wit, he stands beside the likes of Evelyn Waugh and P.G. Wodehouse. (And, to a lesser degree, Saki and Jerome K. Jerome.) Full…

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#1916 #book reviews #books #comedy #E.F.Benson #fiction #gay #Hogarth Press #LGBT #novel #religion #UK #UK fiction

[queerographies]

[Nessuna come lei][Sara De Simone]

Garsington 1916: Tra obiettori di coscienza, nudisti e artisti, nasce l’amicizia letteraria tra Katherine Mansfield e Virginia Woolf Titolo: Nessuna come lei. Katherine Mansfield e Virginia Woolf. Storia di un’amiciziaScritto da: Sara De SimoneEdito da: Neri PozzaAnno: 2024Pagine: 432ISBN: 9791255021773 La sinossi di Nessuna come lei di Sara De Simone Nel luglio del 1916, Garsington, la villa…

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#2024 #Beat #Bertrand Russell #Bloomsbury #Boris Petrovsky #critica letteraria #Elizabeth Stanley #Garsington #Hogarth Press #ili Heron #Italia #Julian Mark #Katherine Mansfield e Virginia Woolf #Leonard Woolf #LGBT #LGBTQ #Lytton Strachey #Matilda Berry #Neri Pozza #Nessuna come lei #nonfiction #Ottoline Morrell #Premio Rapallo BPER Banca 2023 #Saggi #Saggistica #Sara De Simone #Storia di un&039;amicizia #Virginia Woolf

[garadinervi]

T. S. Eliot, (1922), The Waste Land, The Hogarth Press, Paradise Road, Richmond, London, 1923 [British Library, London. © Estate of T. S. Eliot]

#graphic design #typography #poetry #book #cover #book cover #thomas stearns eliot #the hogarth press #british library #1920s

[esonetwork]

'A Christmas Carol Murder' Book Review By Ron Fortier

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'A Christmas Carol Murder' Book Review By Ron Fortier

A CHRISTMAS CAROL MURDER By Heather Redmond Kensington Publishing 303 pgs

This is the third book in the unique Charles Dickens mysteries devised by writer Heather Redmond. In the books, which began with “A Tale of Two Murders” and was followed by “Grave Expectations,” the author has a grand time having a young Charles Dickens become involved with murders and then attempt to solve them with the help of his fiancée, one Kate Hogarth. The added twist is obvious from the titles in that they revolve around one of the famous writer’s novels.

“A Christmas Carol Murder,” was our introduction to the series because although fans of Mr. Dickens, we’ve always had a particular fondness for arguably his most famous story. In this tale, Charles and Kate celebrate the Christmas season by joining several friends in caroling through various London neighborhoods. When they arrive at the home of one Ebenezer Screws, they have barely begun to sing a few songs when the body of an elderly gentleman falls dead at the feet out of a second-story window. He is Mr. Bob Harley, Screw’s business partner in their countinghouse. Oh, and wrapped around the dead man’s throat is a sturdy iron chain. Did he fall out of the window by accident or was he pushed?

Upon meeting Screws, Dickens is put off by the man. At the same time, it is Kate who feels pity for him and urges Charles to investigate. As he reluctantly does so, other familiar characters from the classic appear adding extra fun to the narrative. There’s also an endearing subplot wherein Dickens takes in an orphaned baby boy named Timothy whose mother died in a house fire where she worked as a maid. Allegations arise that the baby might be the journalist’s bastard child. Although false, Dickens is worried such charges will jeopardize his engagement with Kate, never mind bring about the wrath of her father, his boss at The Chronicle. 

Overall, “A Christmas Carol Murder” is brilliantly delivered and the author’s research into London and its social mores at the time is spot on.  When Christmas is just around the corner, we can’t think of a more appropriate book for our readers to pick up and relish. It truly is a wonderful surprise.

#A Christmas Carol #A Christmas Carol Murder #book review #Charles Dickens #ESO Book Review #Heather Redmond #Kate Hogarth #Kensington Press #murder mystery #Ron Fortier

[theblackestofsuns]

The Condemned Playground (1945)

Cyril Connolly

The Hogarth Press

#The Condemned Playground #Cyril Connolly #The Hogarth Press #Started This Today

[lacan-psychoananalysisaspraxis]

Trauma’ is a term that has long been used in medicine and surgery. It comes from the Greek τϱαŭμα, meaning wound, which in turn derives from τιτϱοσχω, to pierce.

‘Trauma’ is a term that has long been used in medicine and surgery. It comes from the Greek τϱαŭμα, meaning wound, which in turn derives from τιτϱοσχω, to pierce. It generally means any injury where the skin is broken as a consequence of external violence, and the effects of such an injury upon the organism as a whole; the implication of the skin being broken is not always present, however–we may speak, for example, of ‘closed head and brain traumas’.

In adopting the term, psycho-analysis carries the three ideas implicit in it over on to the psychical level: the idea of a violent shock, the idea of a wound and the idea of consequences affecting the whole organisation.

Laplanche, J. and Pontalis, J.-B. (1973) The Language of Psychoanalysis. London: Hogarth Press – Reprinted by Karnac Books 1988

#lacan #psychoanalysis #unconscious #jouissance #lacanian real #freud #lacan unconscious #lacan object petit a desire #real symbolic imaginary #objet petit a #trauma #Laplanche Pontalis #wound #real

[dk-thrive]

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery—always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What’s this passion for?…

— Virginia Woolf, in a letter to Ethel Smyth, December 1932 in The Letters of Virginia Woolf (Hogarth Press, March 23, 2010)

#Virginia Woolf #brain #mind #thoughts #passion #purpose #meaning

[musingsofmonica]

August 2023 Diverse Reads

August 2023 Diverse Reads

•”Happiness Falls” by Angie Kim, August 29, Hogarth Press, Literary Mystery 

•”Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare” by Megan Kamalei Kakimoto, August 29, Bloomsbury Publishing, Short Story Collection — Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology (Hawaiian Identify) 

•”The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store” by James McBride, Riverhead Books, Historical

•”Family Lore” by Elizabeth Acevedo, August 1, Ecco Press, Literary/Magical Realism

“A Council of Dolls” by Mona Susan Power, August 7, Mariner Books, Literary — Coming of Age/Native American & Aboriginal/Magical Realism

•”Tomb Sweeping: Stories” by Alexandra Chang, August 8, Ecco Press, Short Story Collection — Asian American  

•”The End of August” by Yu Miri, Translated by Morgan Giles, August 1, Riverhead Books, Historical/Saga 

•”Holler, Child: Stories” by Latoya Watkins, August 29, Tiny Reparations Books, Short Story Collection — African American  

•”Vampires of El Norte” by Isabel Cañas, August 15, Berkley Books, Gothic Thriller/Horror/Suspense 

•”Las Madres” by Esmeralda Santiago, August 1, 

Knopf Publishing Group, Literary

•”Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women” by Sandra Guzman, August 15, Amistad Press, Anthology — American: Hispanic & Latino

•”Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls” by Kai Cheng Thom, August 01, Dual Press,  Nonfiction/Poetry/Motivation

•”The Art of Scandal” by Regina Black, August 1, Grand Central Publishing, Romance

•”Her Radiant Curse” by Elizabeth Lim, August 29, Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers, Fantasy/Fairy Tales/Folklore 

•”The Apology” by Jimin Han, August 1, Little Brown and Company, Family Saga/Magical Realism

•”The Water Outlaws” by S. L. Huang, August 22, Tordotcom, Fantasy

•”The Queen of the Valley” by Lorena Hughes, August 22, Kensington Publishing, Historical

•”I Will Greet the Sun Again” by Khashayar J. Khabushani, August 1, Hogarth Press, Contemporary — Coming of Age/LGBTQ+/Muslim

•”The Peach Seed” by Anita Gail Jones, August 1, Henry Holt & Company, Literary 

•”Lush Lives” by J. Vanessa Lyon, August 1, Roxane Gay Books, Literary

Happy Reading!

Mo✌️

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[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Ian Ellison: What is it about Rainer Maria Rilke? The influence of the Bohemian Austrian poet on modern culture reads like a who’s who of the great and the good. W. H. Auden, Cecil Day-Lewis, and Edith Sitwell claimed to be directly inspired by him. The first English translations of his work, published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press, became classics in their own right. 

He has been set to music (both classical and rock) and proven himself a Hollywood touchstone, most recently providing the concluding epigraph of Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit. Oprah Winfrey has quoted him on television and Lady Gaga has lines from his Letters to a Young Poet (1929) tattooed on her arm.

Maybe he has had such an impact because he is first and foremost a poet of the heart. He expresses those emotions we seldom desire—melancholy, longing, and loneliness above all—with such artistry and feeling that it can seem almost joyful. At the more esoteric end of things, he is regularly co-opted by New Age self-help gurus who take the closing line of his “Archaic Torso of Apollo”—“You must change your life”—as their mantra. Faced with the immensity of his work and its afterlives, you might feel like you know enough about Rilke, but the man himself has for a long time remained something of an enigma. Yet this may well be about to change.

It is rare for a poet to make headlines almost a hundred years after their death, especially for good reasons. But in early December 2022, Rilke was suddenly front-page news across Germany. In what was widely described as the purchase of the century by the German media, the Deutsches Literaturarchiv (DLA) announced it had acquired a collection of Rilke’s manuscripts comprising some 10,000 handwritten pages. These included draft poems and notes for their composition, as well as 2,500 letters written by the poet himself and a further 6,300 addressed to him. One of the most significant literary estates in postwar history, its cultural value is priceless, and it will soon be made available to the general public. A major exhibition at the Literaturmuseum der Moderne (the DLA’s next-door neighbor in Marbach) is planned for 2025 to mark the 150th anniversary of Rilke’s birth, and plans are afoot to digitize the entire collection. After being cataloged, the collection will be made available online without restriction, opening up this treasure trove to academic researchers across the globe, as well as general readers.

[Unboxing Rilke’s Nachlass :: April 6, 2023   •   By Ian Ellison]

#Ian Ellison #Rilke #poetry #poets #Rainer Maria Rilke

[kneadingwater]

i finished the waves today & started tearing up at the end. this might be my favorite of vw's that i have read so far, though mrs dalloway will always hold a special place in my heart. reading this was such a pleasure, not only from an intellectual & emotional point, but also because of the quality of the physical book itself. this edition is from 1931! from her own publishing house, hogarth press! & the inscription! i couldn't quite figure out who susan was, but she was presumably a member of the vaughan family. another member of the vaughan family was madge, virgnia's aunt with whom she fell in love & on whom she based the character of sally in mrs dalloway!!

#all that to say i loved the waves & i love virginia <3 #my post

[theaskew]

The Waves, a novel by Virginia Woolf (London: Hogarth Press, 1931).

#novel #fiction #literature #literary work #20th century novel #20th century #20th century literature #British novel #British fiction #British literature #experimental novel #experimental fiction #Virginia Woolf #The Waves #contemporary novelist #female author #female novelist #female writer #book cover #book excerpt #literary fiction

[garadinervi]

Two Stories, written and printed by Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Publication No. 1, The Hogarth Press, Paradise Road, Richmond, London, 1917 [British Library, London. © The Society of Authors as the Literary Representative of the Estate of Virginia Woolf]

#graphic design #typography #book #cover #book cover #virginia woolf #leonard sidney woolf #leonard woolf #the hogarth press #british library #1910s