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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jeni Couzyn
JC 's introduction is a succinct and sharply intelligent historical sketch of women's poetry in English and the forces arrayed against it. She begins with the Gaelic oral tradition of the Scottish Highlands as represented...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Sybille Bedford
This volume makes its strong impression through the juxtaposition of the pleasures of food, wine, movement, and places with the horrors of human violence and cruelty and the well-meant but often in practice grotesque or...
Textual Production Phyllis Bottome
PB edited a collection of speeches published by Penguin : Our New Order—or Hitler 's? A Selection of Speeches by Winston Churchill , the Archbishop of Canterbury , Anthony Eden , Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
197
Textual Production Alice Munro
This was re-issued by Penguin Canada in 2007 under the title Away from Her: Stories, with a foreword by Sarah Polley . This title comes from what was by now the most famous piece...
Textual Production U. A. Fanthorpe
UAF 's Selected Poems appeared from Peterloo Poets and also as a King Penguin .
Fanthorpe, U. A. Selected Poems. Peterloo Poets.
prelims
Wainwright, Eddie. Taking Stock, A First Study of the Poetry of U.A. Fanthorpe. Peterloo Poets.
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Textual Production Edith Sitwell
Penguin Books published a volume of ES 's Selected Poems in which wartime and post-war work
British Book News. British Council.
(1952): 329
is dominant, with a short Early Poems section at the end.
Fifoot, Richard. A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Rupert Hart-Davis.
69-70
Textual Production Susan Tweedsmuir
This was reprinted by Penguin in 1961.
Textual Production Edna O'Brien
EOB published James Joyce as one of the Penguin Lives biography series.
O’Brien, Edna. James Joyce. Viking Penguin.
prelims
Textual Production Eleanor Farjeon
During this productive year she was also one of the writers included in A Puffin Quartet of Poets.
British Book News. British Council.
(1958): 839
Puffin is the children's imprint of Penguin Books .
Textual Production Ali Smith
AS 's fifth novel, There But For The, was published by Penguin . Like her previous works, it comprises multiple narratives joined by a singular force, and like The Accidental and The Seer...
Textual Production Liz Lochhead
The production, which marked the 400th anniversary of Mary Stuart's beheading, transferred to the Donmar Warehouse in London in September. It was copyrighted in 1988 and published by Penguin along with Dracula in August 1989.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press.
239-240
Whyte, Hamish. “Liz Lochhead: A Checklist”. Liz Lochhead’s Voices, edited by Robert Crawford and Anne Varty, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 170-91.
176
Textual Production Julia O'Faolain
JOF issued another short-story collection, Daughters of Passion, which appeared from Penguin Books .
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Elaine Feinstein
EF contributed to the Penguin series Lives of Modern Women her short biography Bessie Smith.
Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
(1988)
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Textual Production Muriel Spark
MS published Voices at Play: Stories and Ear-pieces: this collects short stories but also four ear-pieces, or radio plays.
The Penguin edition, 1966, drops the subtitle.
Rees, David. Muriel Spark, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, A Bibliography of their First Editions. Colophon Press.
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Textual Production Dorothy Whipple
DW published her second novel, High Wages (re-issued by Penguin in 1946, among John Murray 's Guild Books in 1952, and by Chivers Press in 1978).
“Bowker’s Global Books in Print”. globalbooksinprint.com.

Timeline

30 July 1935: Penguin Books issued its first ten titles:...

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30 July 1935

Penguin Books issued its first ten titles: sixpenny paperbacks with a characteristic penguin logo.

1937: The two-year-old Penguin Books launched its...

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1937

The two-year-old Penguin Books launched its Pelican imprint: a non-fiction series (mostly history, sociology, economics, or politics) which, unlike Penguin fiction, were new works not reprints.

1941: Puffin, a subsidiary of Penguin designed...

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1941

Puffin , a subsidiary of Penguin designed to publish (initially) picture books for children in paperback, issued its first four titles.

1949: Hans Schmoller succeeded Jan Tschichold as...

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1949

Hans Schmoller succeeded Jan Tschichold as designer at Penguin , preserving unchanged the policy of uniform cover design.

1951: Nikolaus Pevsner published the first three...

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1951

Nikolaus Pevsner published the first three titles in his Buildings of England series, an immensely knowledgeable gazetteer, county by county, of historic and other noteworthy structures.

29 July 1959: The Obscene Publications Act (England), 1959,...

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29 July 1959

The Obscene Publications Act (England), 1959, replacing a predecessor of 1857, substantially modified its elements; it newly provided the defence of public good (which was held to include literary merit), and the use...

1963: E. P. Thompson published his influential...

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1963

E. P. Thompson published his influential historyThe Making of the English Working Class.

1972: Designer Richard Hollis produced a revolutionary...

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1972

Designer Richard Hollis produced a revolutionary look for John Berger 's Ways of Seeing in Penguin paperback: the work's text begins on the cover, incorporating (as pages do throughout the book) a cover-like visual.

1974: Erin Pizzey published with Penguin her book...

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1974

Erin Pizzey published with Penguin her book on marital violence, Scream Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear.

May 1978: Virago Press issued its first Virago Modern...

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May 1978

Virago Press issued its first Virago Modern Classics, a historically important series most though not all of which were novels.

1979: The cover of M. M. Kaye's The Far Pavilions...

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1979

The cover of M. M. Kaye 's The Far Pavilions in Penguin paperback (the year after its original publication) shocked Penguin's established constituency with its picture of a couple (the man with bare torso) kissing.

By 20 June 2000: Jane Nissen, a former editor at Penguin,...

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By 20 June 2000

Jane Nissen , a former editor at Penguin , published the first four titles by Jane Nissen Books , reprints of much-loved children's books of the twentieth century.

8 June 2005: An exhibition at the Victoria and Albert...

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8 June 2005

An exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London entitled Penguin by Design: A Cover Story 1935-2005 provided useful insight into its immediate topic, but also into twentieth-century book design in general.

By the end of July 2010: Sales of the three novels in the Millennium...

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By the end of July 2010

Sales of the three novels in the Millennium series by the Swedish writer Stieg Larsson (of which the first was published in England on 10 January 2008) broke records with worldwide sales estimated at between...

Early November 2012: A merger was proposed between the publishers...

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Early November 2012

A merger was proposed between the publishers Penguin and Random House , that would create a mega-company with worldwide revenues of 4.1 billion dollars US.
Sabbagh, Dan. “Amazon fears underlie books merger”. Guardian Weekly, p. 17.

Texts

Bainbridge, Beryl. Collected Stories. Penguin, 1994.
Barker, Pat. Another World. Penguin, 1999.
Beauvoir, Simone de. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter. Translator Kirkup, James, Penguin, 2001.
Bedford, Sybille. Jigsaw. Penguin, 1990.
Bedford, Sybille. Jigsaw. Penguin, 1999.
Evans, Richard J. The Penguin Dictionary of Nineteenth Century History. Editors Belchem, John and Richard Price, Penguin, 1996.
Berry, Emily et al. If I’m Scared We Can’t Win. Penguin, 2016.
Blackman, Malorie. “The Ripple Effect”. Doctor Who: 11 Doctors, 11 Stories, Penguin, 2013.
Blackstone, Tessa. “The Education of Girls”. The Rights and Wrongs of Women, edited by Ann Oakley and Juliet Mitchell, Penguin, 1976, pp. 199-16.
Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer et al. Our New Order—or Hitler’s?. Editor Bottome, Phyllis, Penguin, 1943.
Bradstock, Margaret, and Louise Wakeling. Rattling the Orthodoxies: A Life of Ada Cambridge. Penguin, 1991.
Brett, Judith, and Mary Fortune. “Preface”. The Fortunes of Mary Fortune, edited by Lucy Sussex and Lucy Sussex, Penguin, 1989, p. ix - xi.
Brontë, Anne, and Winifred Gérin. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Editor Hargreaves, Geoffrey Duncan, Penguin, 1979.
Brookner, Anita. Strangers. Penguin, 2009.
Burney, Frances. Journals and Letters. Editors Sabor, Peter and Lars E. Troide, Penguin, 2001.
Burnside, John et al. John Burnside, Robert Crawford, Kathleen Jamie. Penguin.
Butler, Marilyn, and Maria Edgeworth. “Introduction”. Castle Rackrent; and, Ennui, Penguin, 1992, pp. 1-54.
Cambridge, Ada, and Nancy Cato. Sisters. Penguin, 1989.
Cannan, Joanna, and Anne Bullen. Hamish: The Story of a Shetland Pony. Penguin, 1944.
Cannan, Joanna. Murder Included. Penguin, 1958.
Castle, Barbara. Sylvia and Christabel Pankhurst. Penguin, 1987.
Churchill, Caryl, and Irving Wardle. “The Ants”. New English Dramatists 12, Penguin, pp. 89-103.
Clark, Charles Manning Hope. A Short History of Australia. Penguin, 1986.
Daniel, Helen. Liars: Australian New Novelists. Penguin, 1988.
Davies, Robertson. Tempest-Tost. Penguin, 1980.