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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Anthologization | Anne Enright | |
Anthologization | Elaine Feinstein | EF
was elated when she was invited by Faber and Faber
to contribute to Poetry: introduction 1, 1969 (at the instigation, she said, of Ted Hughes
). Her elation was short-lived since this news... |
Anthologization | Winsome Pinnock | Can You Keep a Secret? appeared in a volume edited by Nick Drake
, Joanne Reardon
, and Suzy Graham-Adriani
: New Connections 99: New Plays for Young People, published by Faber and Faber
in 1999. |
Anthologization | Seamus Heaney | SH
issued from Faber
his translation of the Old English epic poem Beowulf (commissioned for the NortonAnthology of English Literature), which he dedicated to the memory of Ted Hughes
. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. 5035 (1 October 1999): 9 Beowulf. Heaney, SeamusTranslator , Faber, 1999. prelims |
Anthologization | Bryony Lavery | BL
's More Light, a play for children of secondary-school age commissioned by the Education Department of the Royal National Theatre
, was published by Faber and Faber
in New Connections: New Plays for Young People. OCLC WorldCat. |
Dedications | Ann Jellicoe | AJ
wrote the play at the request of Bill Gaskill
, the Court's new manager. She was dissatisfied with her own direction of this production, and preferred the student production she directed at RADA
... |
Employer | T. S. Eliot | TSE
was appointed by Geoffrey Faber
as literary editor and member of the board of directors at the new publishing house Faber and Gwyer (later Faber and Faber)
, a position he held until his death. Ackroyd, Peter. T.S. Eliot. Hamish Hamilton, 1984. 152 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 45 |
Employer | Anne Ridler | AR
worked at Faber & Faber
as secretary and copy-editor, first for Richard de la Mare
and from late 1936 for T. S. Eliot
. Her duties included helping Eliot select poetry for The Criterion... |
Employer | T. S. Eliot | TSE
took leave of absence from his job with Faber and Faber
to accept an invitation from Harvard University
to hold the Charles Eliot Norton
professorship at Harvard for the academic year 1932-33. Ackroyd, Peter. T.S. Eliot. Hamish Hamilton, 1984. 192-3 |
Employer | Anne Ridler | This work, however, was not paid. AR
decided that the only way to get into publishing professionally would be to become a secretary. In this capacity she started work for Faber and Faber
at the... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Blackwood | Lowell, her third husband, was called by his friends Cal, short for Caligula). In spring 1970, at a time when his bipolar disorder was making him crazy, he stayed the night at CB
's London... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Phyllis Bottome | PB
published with Faber and Faber
a biography of her mentor Alfred Adler
, entitled Alfred Adler, Apostle of Freedom. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 197 OCLC WorldCat. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. 1970 (4 November 1939): 638 |
Literary responses | Cecily Mackworth | T. S. Eliot
, an early and appreciative reader of this book, invited the author to meet him over tea at his Faber and Faber
office in Russell Square. Mackworth, however, felt intimidated by... |
Literary responses | Edna O'Brien | |
Literary responses | Anne Ridler | When Anne Bradby (later AR
) plucked up courage to show some early poems to T. S. Eliot
(though not requesting publication by Faber and Faber
), she was encouraged by his advice: I should... |
Timeline
1924
Geoffrey Cust Faber
entered into partnership with Maurice
and Alsina Gwyer
, owners of the Scientific Press
at 28 Southampton Street, near the Strand, to establish the firm Faber and Gwyer Limited
.
1928
The first prose work by poet Siegfried Sassoon
, his early autobiographyMemoirs of a Foxhunting Man, became the first best-seller published by Faber and Faber
(which adopted this name the following year).
1929
The publishing firm of Faber and Gwyer
became Faber and Faber, when the Gwyer family pulled out.
17 September 1954
William Golding
's first novel, The Lord of the Flies, reached print from Faber and Faber
after being rejected by twenty-one other publishers.