My best-known dictum, from A Room of One's Own (1929): creative work in literature depends on material conditions — income and private space — before it depends on talent.
Our first book, Two Stories (1917), took two and a half months to set, print and bind by hand in a run of 150 copies, with Dora Carrington's illustrations. Kew Gardens (1919) refined the method with a Vanessa Bell woodblock.
In 1917 Leonard and I set up a hand press at Hogarth House and turned it into a publisher of living avant-garde literature, art and translation — Mansfield, Eliot, Forster, Russian works and the first complete Freud in English.
I am an English writer of modernist literature. I helped pioneer stream of consciousness as a narrative device, publish novels and essays to critical and popular acclaim, and print much of my own work through the Hogarth Press.
