ABSTRACT
Although I have long found publishing to be a fascinating enterprise, intellectually stimulating and interesting, Leonard and Virginia Woolf As Publishers 1 is the first book about publishing, outside of Bennett Cerf’s memoir At Random, that I can recall having read. My interest in the Woolfs was aroused because of the central role they played within the Bloomsbury circle of intellectuals, and in particular the part that the Hogarth Press, as Freud’s English publisher starting in the 1920s, took in disseminating psychoanalytic ideas throughout the English-speaking world. I interviewed Leonard Woolf in 1965 in connection with his personal knowledge of Freud and relished each of the five volumes of Woolf’s autobiography; he sent me some sales figures of Freud’s pre-World War II texts.
