Diary entry for August 2, 1924
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
Diary entry
August 2, 1924
The founding of the Hogarth Press in 1917 was partially intended, as Leonard Woolf later recalled, to be “a manual occupation [that] would take [Woolf’s] mind completely off her work.”
In this diary entry from 1924, Woolf references the importance of the Press as a foil to her creative work: “Then, being at a low ebb with my book . . . I begin to count myself a failure. Now the point of the Press is that it entirely prevents brooding; and gives me something solid to fall back on. Anyhow, if I can’t write, I can make other people write; I can build up a business.”
: Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
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