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THE HOGARTH PRESS AT 100

IN CONNECTION WITH THE 27TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON VIRGINIA WOOLF
July 1, 2017 - August 31, 2017

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Start:
July 1, 2017
End:
August 31, 2017
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The Museum of English Rural Life
The Museum of English Rural Life, Redlands Road
Reading, Berkshire RG1 5EX United Kingdom + Google Map
Printing press type laid out to spell the call for Hogarth Press prints.

2017 marks the centenary of the founding of the Hogarth Press. This exhibition is a celebration of Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press as a key intervention in modernist and women’s writing, and marks its importance to independent publishing and bookselling.

The exhibition features contemporary artwork responding to the centenary and original artwork, woodblocks, archival objects and documents from the archives of the Hogarth Press, held in the University of Reading’s Special Collections.

The exhibition accompanies the 27th annual conference on Virginia Woolf at the University of Reading from June 29th to July 2nd. For more information visit www.woolf2017.com