George Hogarth 1831 Hogarth was editor of a pro-Tory newspaper the Western Luminary, then in 1832 moved to Halifax becoming the first editor of the Halifax Guardian. In 1834, he became a music critic for "The Morning Chronicle" newspaper in London, and in 1835 he became editor-in-chief of "The Evening Chronicle", a post he held for twenty years. From 1846–1866 he worked as a music critic for "The Daily News", a paper which was founded by the novelist Charles Dickens. He had previously met Dickens in 1834 while they were both working for the "Morning Chronicle". In 1836 Dickens married Hogarth's eldest
Hogarth Press respectively. The Hogarth Press produced a number of publication series that were affordable as well as being attractively bound and printed, and usually commissioned from well known authors. These include the initial "Hogarth Essays" in three series 1924–1947 (36 titles), "Hogarth Lectures on Literature" (2 series 1927–1951), "Merttens Lectures on War and Peace" (8 titles 1927–1936), "Hogarth Living Poets" (29 titles 1928–1937), "Day to Day Pamphlets" (1930–1939), "Hogarth Letters" (12 titles 1931–1933) and "World-Makers and World-Shakers" (4 titles 1937). The "Essays" were the first series produced by the press and include works by Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf and Gertrude Stein.