John Lehmann

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John Lehmann (center) with sister Rosamond and Lytton Strachey , 1920s

John Frederick Lehmann (born June 2, 1907 in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire , † April 7, 1987 in London ) was a British poet and publisher of the 20th century.

Life

The son of the journalist Rudolph Lehmann and brother of the actress Beatrix Lehmann and the writer Rosamond Lehmann studied at Eton and at Trinity College , Cambridge . He later described this period as "lost years." At Trinity College, Lehmann had a close relationship with Virginia Woolf's nephew Quentin Bell .

After working as a journalist in Vienna, he returned to England and founded the periodical in the book format New Writing (1936–1940). a. Provided a literary home to writers like Christopher Isherwood and WH Auden . He edited his anthology Poems for Spain with Stephen Spender . With the onset of World War II and the ensuing paper shortage, the future of New Writing became uncertain, and Lehmann therefore edited New Writing in Europe for Pelican Books ( imprint of Penguin Books ), which was one of the first critical publications by 1930s writers like WH Auden, Spender, as well as his close friend Tom Wintringham and the aspiring George Orwell . The articles were later published under the title The Penguin New Writing , for which Penguin had secured printing paper, it was a monthly book magazine published in paperback . The first edition published Orwell's essay Shooting the Elephant . Occasionally, hardcover editions appeared, combined with Daylight magazine ; The magazine survived as Penguin New Writing until 1950.

From the beginning of 1931 to September 1932 Lehmann worked as an editor in the " Hogarth Press ". In 1938 he took over Virginia Woolf's shares in the Hogarth Press and worked with Leonard Woolf as managing director until 1946. He then founded his own publishing house, "John Lehmann Limited", together with his sister Rosamond; they published books by well-known authors such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Stendhal and discovered new talents such as Thom Gunn and Laurie Lee . The publishing house was closed in 1952. In 1954 he founded The London Magazine and was editor there until 1961.

John Lehmann's great-grandfather Leo Lehmann and his great uncles Rudolf Lehmann and Henri Lehmann were well-known painters.

literature

  • Poems:
  • A Garden Revisited (1931)
  • The Age of the Dragon (1951)
  • Collected Poems (1961)
  • Three volume autobiography:
  • Whispering Gallery (1955)
  • I Am My Brother (1960)
  • The Ample Proposition (1966)
  • Study A Nest of Tigers: The Sitwells in Their Time (1969).
  • The Purely Pagan Sense (1976) Autobiographical description of his homosexual love life in England and pre-war Germany, written discreetly in the form of a novella.
  • Biographies:
  • Edith Sitwell (1952)
  • Virginia Woolf and Her World (1975)
  • Thrown To The Woolfs (1978)
  • Rupert Brooke (1980).

Secondary literature

  • Hermione Lee: Virginia Woolf . Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1999. As paperback 2006: ISBN 3-596-17374-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Book review: An Eton schoolboy thrown to the Woolfs ( en ) December 20, 1998. Retrieved May 13, 2019.

swell

  • Adrian Wright: John Lehmann: A Pagan Adventure (1998)
  • Gale Literary Databases: (Rudolph) John (Frederick) Lehmann
  • David Hughes: Lehmann, (Rudolph) John Frederick (1907–1987)
  • Petra Rau, University of Portsmouth. John Lehmann. The Literary Encyclopedia. Mar. 21, 2002. The Literary Dictionary Company.
personal data
SURNAME Lehmann, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lehmann, John Frederick (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British author and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Bourne End , Buckinghamshire
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1987
Place of death London