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Biography and Autobiography at the Hogarth Press Biography and Autobiography at the Hogarth Press by Claire Battershill A thesis submitted in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Department of English University of Toronto © Copyright by Claire Battershill 2012 Biography and Autobiography at the Hogarth Press Claire Battershill Doctor of Philosophy Department of English University of Toronto 2012 Abstract The subject of this thesis is the biographies and autobiographies published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press between 1917 and 1946. I combine several areas of scholarly inquiry – biography and autobiography studies, modernist studies, book history, and the history of reading – in order to examine the intersections between literary and textual constructions of genre and the role of categorization in the book trade. My central argument is that diversity, as both the policy and the product of the Hogarth Press, allowed a multitude of voices, methodologies, perspectives, and subjects to co-exist at one publishing house and produced a body of works that goes far beyond the small circle of Bloomsbury with which it is usually associated. The variety of the Hogarth Press’s publications meant that its approach to genre was one of hybridity, oscillation, and ambivalence, but one that nevertheless found ways to position complicated works in the category-oriented world of the book trade. Drawing from unpublished archival materials in order to uncover relationships between authors, readers, publishers, booksellers, literary agents, book clubs, and critics, I argue that the Hogarth Press’s practices in publishing biographies and autobiographies informed the Woolfs’ writings about the importance and role of the genres in the context of literary modernism. Using material from the Hogarth Press Business Archive housed at the University of Reading, I offer detailed studies of the Press’s translations from the Russian of three biographies of Tolstoy and ii Sophia Tolstoy’s autobiography; two biography series of the 1930s; Henry Green and Christopher Isherwood’s fictionalized autobiographies; and Virginia Woolf’s own biographical experiments, Orlando, Flush, and Roger Fry. My analysis of these particular groups of works is underpinned by a reading of the Press’s whole list of publications between 1917 and 1946, a quantitative and qualitative analysis of which I offer in the opening chapter of the thesis. The 522 copies of Hogarth Press books and pamphlets I read are housed in the Virginia Woolf Collection at the E. J. Pratt Library at Victoria University in the University of Toronto. iii Acknowledgments Funding for this project, and for the travel to England that allowed me to complete the archival research on which it is based, came from the following grants and fellowships: a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, an Ontario Graduate Scholarship, a University of Toronto Fellowship, a Department of English Award, a University of Toronto School of Graduate Studies Research Travel Grant, a Department of English Travel Grant, a SSHRC Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement, and a Massey College Travel Grant. I would like to thank my supervisor, Heather Jackson, for her support of me and of this project. She is a formidable scholar, an inspiring mentor, and a witty and incisive editor. I feel very lucky to have had such a lovely guide through the doctoral adventure. I am also grateful to the two members of my supervisory committee. Melba Cuddy-Keane and Heather Murray were enthusiastic and perceptive commentators on successive drafts of this work, and they asked wonderfully challenging and provocative questions throughout the process. Heather Murray and Deidre Lynch provided personal and professional support as successive Directors of Graduate Studies. Richard Greene was a friendly, supportive, and challenging internal examiner, and his comments on matter of style were particularly helpful. Helen Southworth’s thorough, generous, and insightful external appraisal will greatly enrich future versions of this work. Tanuja Persaud, Marguerite Perry, Carol Gordon, Sangeeta Panjwani, and Gillian Northgrave have been tremendously helpful in matters administrative. Gillian Fenwick and Jane Millgate provided useful methodological advice at the beginning of this project. Halyna Kozar, Lisa Sherlock, Carmen Socknet, Roma Kale, and all of the staff at the E. J. Pratt Library made my daily visits to Special Collections particularly pleasant. I would like to thank the staff at the iv Fisher Rare Book Library, Robarts Library, the Inforum, the Bodelian Library in Oxford, the British Library, the University of Victoria Library for their kind assistance. I would also like to honour the memory of Mary Rowell Jackman, who donated her private collection to the E. J. Pratt Library and began what has become one of the most extensive gatherings of Woolf-related materials in the world. Massey College provided me first with a home and then with a place to read by the fire and always with a delightful community of friends and colleagues. In addition to my personal debt to far more people than I can name here, including many exuberant cheerleaders in England, Ireland, and B.C., I owe particular thanks to my peers in the Department of English at the University of Toronto. Emma Gorst, Julia Grandison, Erin Parker, Mike Raby, Dan Newman, Tony Antoniades, Lindsey Eckert, and Heather Jessup read and commented on parts of the thesis. Past and present members of the Department’s Modernism Reading and Research Group, and in particular Sarah Copland, Sean Starke, Alexandra Peat, Elizabeth Dickens, and Kim Fairbrother-Canton have provided lively conversation about all things modernist. Jennifer McDermott kindly read a draft of the full thesis and was a supportive friend and colleague in the final stages this project. I extend my deepest thanks to my dear brother Andrew, and to Kelly Barnard and Peter Battershill, the best mum and dad in the whole wide world. This work is dedicated to Cillian O’Hogan, with love. v Table of Contents Abstract ................................................................................................................................................... ii Acknowledgments ................................................................................................................................... iv Table of Contents .................................................................................................................................... vi Abbreviations ....................................................................................................................................... viii List of Figures ......................................................................................................................................... ix List of Appendices ................................................................................................................................... x Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 1 Retelling the Story of the Hogarth Press ............................................................................................... 5 Modernism, Biography and Autobiography, and Virginia Woolf ...................................................... 21 “Naughtyboyography” and “Autobiografiction”: Naming Modernist Genres ................................... 26 This Thesis and What it Does ............................................................................................................. 33 Part One: Writing, Debating, and Publishing Biography and Autobiography .................... 38 Chapter One: Genre at the Hogarth Press .......................................................................................... 38 A Small Press in A Big Wide World .................................................................................................. 42 Categories and Subjects ...................................................................................................................... 50 Chapter Two: Debates about Biography and Autobiography .......................................................... 60 What Was New About “The New Biography”? ................................................................................. 65 Leonard Woolf and the Value of True Stories .................................................................................... 81 The Development of English Biography ............................................................................................. 87 Part Two: Case Studies .............................................................................................................. 95 Chapter Three: “Life” before “The New Biography”: The Hogarth “Books on Tolstoi” 1920- 1924 ......................................................................................................................................................... 95 Russian Translations at the Hogarth Press .......................................................................................... 97 “Russian Fever” ................................................................................................................................ 102 “Carelessly Jotted Down”: Maxim Gorky’s Biographical Method .................................................. 105 The Autobiography of Countess Sophia Tolstoy ..............................................................................
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