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Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Anthologization | Marina Warner | This book began from an essay commissioned by Christopher Falkus
of Weidenfeld and Nicolson
, for a collection by women writing on formative influences on their lives. Warner was at first reluctant, or half-hearted, about... |
Employer | Eva Figes | This launched her career as a publisher's editor. She later did the same kind of work for Weidenfeld and Nicolson
, 1962-3, and for Blackie
, 1964-7. |
Employer | Antonia Fraser | Her first job after getting her BA was in publishing: as an editor, foreign languages editor, publicity director, and jack of all trades with Weidenfeld and Nicolson
. Wroe, Nicholas. “The history woman”. The Guardian, pp. 16 -19. 18 |
Employer | Elizabeth Jane Howard | In 1958, the Day-Lewis affair having put an end to her Chatto and Windus
job, EJH
worked briefly as a fiction editor for Weidenfeld and Nicolson
. She gave up this job when her agent,... |
Publishing | Olivia Manning | This, at three years, was her longest novel in the writing. With it she moved from Heinemann
to Weidenfeld
, but she remained uncertain whether the shift had been a good thing. Braybrooke, Neville, and Isobel English. Olivia Manning: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 2004. 215, 162 |
Publishing | Penelope Mortimer | After the failure of her second volume of autobiography, PM
's publishers, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
, rejected the third volume, which she had entitled Closing Time. She could not persuade any other publisher to take it. Gordon, Giles. “Obituary: Penelope Mortimer”. Guardian Weekly, p. 26. 26 |
Publishing | Beryl Bainbridge | Hodder and Stoughton
turned it down, then Chapman and Hall
, then Chatto and Windus
, all with words of encouragement which BB
felt too insecure to take in. These were later joined by Weidenfeld and Nicolson |
Publishing | Antonia Fraser | This 70,000-word retelling of Sir Thomas Malory Wroe, Nicholas. “The history woman”. The Guardian, pp. 16 -19. 16 |
Publishing | Antonia Fraser | Having in a sense revisited the Mary, Queen of Scots story here, she revisited Cromwell in the same ghostly manner in King Charles II, published in early September 1978 (written, she said, therapeutically while... |
Publishing | Elspeth Huxley | EH
's book on her daily life in the form of a diary, Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins, 2002. 391 |
Publishing | Elspeth Huxley | EH
's most successful biography in terms of publicity was Scott of the Antarctic, though it came out badly edited owing to Weidenfeld
's sudden decision to move publication forward to catch shoppers during... |
Publishing | Elspeth Huxley | Also during the 1960s, her immense productivity led her into difficulties over tax (partly because of the taxing, at that date, of married couples as a single unit). In 1965-6 her tax demand was £1,800... |
Publishing | Elspeth Huxley | It had illustrations by Delia Delderfield
. British Library Catalogue. |
Publishing | Rose Macaulay | She began writing this as a book of 40,000 words on a contract from Weidenfeld and Nicolson
for a series called Pleasures and Treasures. When it got too long for the series, Nigel Nicolson |
Publishing | Olivia Manning | Between 1977 and 1980 OM
completed her novel-sequence Fortunes of War, with a second group, The Levant Trilogy, comprising the novels The Danger Tree, The Battle Lost and Won, and The... |
Timeline
1949
1955
Copies of Molloy by Samuel Beckett
and Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
(both published in France) were seized by British Customs.
1957
A new recruit at publishing firm Weidenfeld and Nicolson
was told that this was an enterprise run by George Weidenfeld
, not by committee, and that its mission was to open a window to Europe...