Penguin

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Material Conditions of Writing Naomi Alderman
NA titled her second novel The Lessons. It was published by Penguin after a long old slog, which involved cutting 50,000 words,
Alderman, Naomi. Naomi Alderman. Novels and Games. http://www.naomialderman.com/about/.
the entire original opening.
Shackle, Samira. “The Lessons (review)”. The New Statesman, Vol.
139
, No. 4997, p. 55.
139.4997 (19 April 2010): 55
Publishing Margery Allingham
Penguin Books paid MA the compliment of re-issuing ten of her books published during 1929-45, all of them Albert Campion novels except Black Plumes.
British Book News. British Council.
(1950) 730
Publishing Margaret Atwood
This book was based on the annual Massey Lectures which Atwood gave in Toronto this year. She was initially unwilling to accept the invitation to speak, but did so on condition that the result would...
Publishing Sybille Bedford
It was reprinted as a Virago Classic in 1984, and by Penguin in 2000.
Publishing Sybille Bedford
It was dedicated to Allanah Harper , and reprinted in a Penguin edition the following year. Just as she had aimed to make her travel-book a novel, SB said she had set out here to...
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...
Anthologization Malorie Blackman
MB contributed a novella, The Ripple Effect, to Doctor Who: 11 Doctors, 11 Stories, a Penguin Books anthology intended to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the science fiction television programme Doctor Who with...
Publishing Caroline Blackwood
She had visited the camp in March, commissioned by a US magazine for an article, and fascinated by these outsiders whose courage and perseverance was being rewarded with vilification. She then expanded her article into...
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
Publishing Frances Burney
Work then began under the editorship of Lars E. Troide at the beginning of the earlier journals: The Early Journals and Letters (five volumes, 1988-2012, which take the young Burney to 1783), The Court Journals...
Publishing Joanna Cannan
It was later re-issued as a Penguin paperback.
Cannan, Joanna. Murder Included. Penguin.
back cover
Publishing Angela Carter
AC 's work outside fiction includes several translated editions of fairy tales: The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault with her foreword (1977), and Sleeping Beauty and Other Favourite Fairy Tales (1982). Her Perrault translation, originally...
Publishing Lettice Cooper
This was reprinted by Penguin in 1946, by Virago in 1987, and by Persephone Books in 2004.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
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...
Textual Production Ella D'Arcy
The full English title was Ariel: A Shelley Romance. In July 1935 this translation became the first Penguin paperback ever published.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
59392 (10 May 1975): 9

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.