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Fresca: A Life in the Making is a detective story, cultural history, and love story. For Francesca Allinson (1902-1945), life and making art were synonymous, though both were cut short by suicide. Her story captures the topsy-turvy quality of a life singularly led; it shows how biography gets turned upside down in the making, and how the story of a single individual can throw the literary and social perspective of a time period into relief. British-German Jewish Allinson's fictional autobiography, A Childhood, made it onto Leonard and Virginia Woolf's The Hogarth Press list in 1937. Writer,...

This multi-authored volume, newly available in paperback, focuses on Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press (1917-1941). Scholars from the UK and the US use previously unpublished archival materials and new methodological frameworks to explore the relationships forged by the Woolfs via the Press and to gauge the impact of their editorial choices on writing and culture. Combining literary criticism, book history, biography and sociology, the chapters weave together the stories of the lesser known authors, artists and press workers with the canonical names linked to the press following a...

This multi-authored volume, newly available in paperback, focuses on Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press (1917-1941). Scholars from the UK and the US use previously unpublished archival materials and new methodological frameworks to explore the relationships forged by the Woolfs via the Press and to gauge the impact of their editorial choices on writing and culture. Combining literary criticism, book history, biography and sociology, the chapters weave together the stories of the lesser known authors, artists and press workers with the canonical names linked to the press following a...

"A book I greatly admire." - Graham Greene
"One of the most interesting first novels I have read for some time. Short and dramatic, and written with a fine simplicity. I could not put it down until I knew all that was to happen that Saturday night." - "Sunday Times"
"A first novel of outstanding merit . . . In Mr. Hampson we have a new writer of strong and wholly original talent." - Harold Nicolson, "Daily Express"
"A masterpiece of character drawing." - "Daily Sketch"
Sinister and scheming Mrs. Tapin has seen fourteen landlords come and go at the Greyhound, an old pub...