Modernist Lives

Claire Battershill is Government of Canada Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at Simon Fraser University, Canada. She is the author of Circus (2014); co-author (with Helen Southworth, Alice Staveley, Michael Widner, Elizabeth Willson Gordon, and Nicola Wilson) of Scholarly Adventures in Digital Humanities (2017); and co-author (with Shawna Ross) of Using Digital Humanities in the Classroom (Bloomsbury, 2017).

Claire Battershill’s groundbreaking Modernist Lives offers an exciting new approach to Woolf’s writing on biography, to the shaping effects of her reading and writing on the study of modernist life writing, and to the place of life writing in the landscape of modernist publishing, reading, and reviewing ... Modernist Lives is essential reading not only for those working in modernist studies but for the fields of life writing, archive studies, and publishing history.

• Introduction1. What the Hogarth Press Published (1917-1946)a. Beyond Bloomsburyb. Quantifying the Publisher's Listc. Types of Books2. Life Before "The New Biography": The Hogarth Press "Books on Tolstoi" 1920-1924a. 'Carelessly Jotted Down': Maxim Gorky's Biographical Methodb. The Autobiography of Countess Sophia Tolstoyc. Tolstoi's Love Letters3. Debates About Biography and Autobiographya. What Was "New" About the "New Biography"?b. Leonard Woolf and the Value of True Storiesc. The Development of English Biographyd. Harold Nicolson and the Hogarth Press4. Marketing, Seriousness and Invention: Orlando (1928), Flush (1933) and Roger Fry (1940)a. "No One Wants Biography": Classifying Orlandob. "Not a Poet But a Red Cocker Spaniel": Flush and the Problem of Seriousnessc. Moments of Being in Roger Fry 5. The Hogarth Press Biography Series (1934-1937)a. Autobiografictionb. John Lehmann and the New Face of the Hogarth Press c. "Everyone Must Be His Own Guinea-Pig": Christopher Isherwood's Lions and Shadowsd. Fears of Libel and the Publishing of Goodbye to Berline. "A Long Intimacy Between Strangers": Henry Green's Pack My BagConclusionAppendices:A. List of Biographies and Autobiographies and Genre CategorizationsB. List Prices, Sales Figures for the First Six Months, Print Run Numbers and Profit and Loss FiguresC. Profits and Losses By GenreBibliographyIndex