Word: compositors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Woolfs, who married in 1912, remained affectionate companions and social allies throughout the years. With one simple printing machine they established a publishing house, the Hogarth Press. Virginia became an able compositor. As a writer she received a consistently good press, and because her novels were so close to her private imaginings, she felt a good notice was "a certificate of sanity." With increasing assurance, she began using in conversation the marvelous gifts of perceptiveness that mark character studies like Mrs. Dalloway. Perhaps the culmination of her public life occurred in 1928 when she gave the Cambridge lectures that became...