In his splendidly forthright memoirs, Leonard Woolf explains that he and Virginia began the Hogarth Press in 1917 as a pleasant pastime to take her mind off writing. But they soon discovered a different benefit. Virginia was exceptionally sensitive to criticism and dreaded how her publishers would respond to the daringly impressionist turn her fiction had taken. Being able to self-publish emboldened her to fully pursue the style that would define "Jacob's Room" and "Mrs. Dalloway."
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