Publishing house founded by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. It grew from a hobby to become a business, publishing the works of the members of the Bloomsbury Group and books on psychoanalysis and foreign translations. It became an associate company of Chatto and Windus and is now an imprint of The Crown Publishing Group, part of Random House Inc.
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Hogarth Press
In this house Leonard and Virginia Woolf lived, 1915 - 1924, and founded the ...
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Clergyman. He issued the first parish magazine and established several other religious publications. Responsible for founding churches, schools and hospitals in Battersea. Born in India to an offi...
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Civil servant, journalist and author. He served in the Indian Civil Service, for North-Western Provinces from 1867 to 1876, after which he worked in London as a journalist. From the 1880s onwards, ...
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Mathew Philip Crosse was born on 18 May 1914 in Wandsworth, London, the son of Samuel Crosse (b. circa 1854) and Alice Edith Crosse (b. 1885). His birth was registered as Matthew P. Cross in the 2n...
Person, Armed Forces, Emergency Services, Journalism / Publishing, Law
Nurse, journalist, broadcaster, novelist and 'agony aunt'. Born Claire Berenice Chetwynd in London. Â Her early life was marred by the cruelty of her parents who put her in a psychiatric hospital wh...
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Literature, Medicine, TV & Radio, Canada
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