When Faber
accepted the first of these books, MW
's husband Eric Siepmann
wept with joy.
Wesley, Mary, and Kim Sayer. Part of the Scenery. Bantam.
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Kathleen Nott
KN
published with Faber and Faber
her fourth and final novel, An Elderly Retired Man, which is narrated in the first person by its stunningly self-centred protagonist.
LR
published her first volume of poetry for thirty-two years, Selected Poems: in Five Sets, with Faber and Faber
, prefaced by her explanation of her present view of the untrustworthiness of poetry.
Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books.
421
Textual Production
Alison Uttley
Encouraged by the success of The Country Child, AU
published with Faber
(to whom that same success made her welcome) Moonshine and Magic, a book of stories for children.
Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph.
122
Textual Production
P. D. James
In 2019 The Victim was re-issued by Faber
as a stand-alone short story.
Henig, Suzanne. “Queen of Lud: Hope Mirrlees”. Virginia Woolf Quarterly, Vol.
1
, No. 1, pp. 8-27.
8
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Djuna Barnes
Nightwood was published in New York in March 1937 by Harcourt Brace
, with an introduction by Eliot
praising its great achievement of a style, the beauty of phrasing, the brilliance of wit and characterization...
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Alison Uttley
AU
published with Faber
another volume of stories for children, Candlelight Tales, to a chorus of praise from periodicals including the Sunday Times and Country Life.
Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph.
139
Textual Production
Wendy Cope
She has followed that with a collection for children, The Orchard Book of Funny Poems (illustrated by Amanda Vesey
), 1993, and with three anthologies published by Faber and Faber
:The Funny Side: 101...
Textual Production
Anne Ridler
Faber and Faber
brought out AR
's New and Selected Poems, her first retrospective selection published in Britain.
SD
's Morning Glory was staged at Watford Palace Theatre
, directed by Laurence Till
(who had attended her Neaptide seven times, three of them in one week). It was printed the same year by...
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Elizabeth Jennings
She edited a selection of Christina Rossetti
's poetry for Faber and Faber
in 1970, with an introduction praising Rossetti's many felicities . . . the perfection of her lyric ear . . . [her]...
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Samuel Beckett
It was given in a double bill with the earlier piece Endgame, with Jack McGowran or MacGowran
as its protagonist, Clov.
Tóibín, Colm. “My Darlings”. London Review of Books, pp. 3-8.
6
These two Irish actors, each important for Becket's work, each apparently sought...
Timeline
1924: Geoffrey Cust Faber entered into partnership...
1928: The first prose work by poet Siegfried Sassoon,...
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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...
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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...
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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.
Texts
Adcock, Fleur, editor. The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Women’s Poetry. Faber and Faber, 1987.
Amis, Kingsley, editor. The Faber Popular Reciter. Faber and Faber, 1978.
Auden, W. H. Another Time. Faber and Faber, 1940.
Auden, W. H. Collected Poems. Editor Mendelson, Edward, Faber and Faber, 1976.
Auden, W. H. Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957. Faber and Faber, 1969.
Auden, W. H., and Christopher Isherwood. Journey to a War. Faber and Faber, 1939.
Auden, W. H., and Louis MacNeice. Letters from Iceland. Faber and Faber, 1937.
Auden, W. H. Look, Stranger!. Faber and Faber, 1936.
Auden, W. H. Poems. Faber and Faber, 1930.
Auden, W. H. Secondary Worlds. Faber and Faber, 1968.
Auden, W. H. Thank You, Fog. Faber and Faber, 1974.
Auden, W. H. The Dyer’s Hand and Other Essays. Faber and Faber, 1975.
Auden, W. H. The Enchafèd Flood; or, the Romantic Iconography of the Sea. Faber and Faber, 1950.
Auden, W. H. The Shield of Achilles. Faber and Faber, 1955.
Barnes, Djuna. Nightwood. Faber and Faber, 1936.
Barnes, Djuna. The Antiphon. Faber and Faber, 1958.
Beckett, Samuel. Krapp’s Last Tape. Faber and Faber, 1958.
Beckett, Samuel. Not I. Faber and Faber, 1971.
Benson, Theodora. Best Stories of Theodora Benson. Faber and Faber, 1940.
Benson, Theodora. “Harry was Good to the Girls”. Stories of the Underworld, edited by Peter Cheyney, Faber and Faber, 1942, pp. 191-5.
Benson, Theodora. Sweethearts and Wives. Faber and Faber, 1942.
Billington, Michael. Harold Pinter. Faber and Faber, 2007.
Boston, Lucy, and Peter Boston. A Stranger at Green Knowe. Faber and Faber, 1961.
Boston, Lucy, and Peter Boston. An Enemy at Green Knowe. Faber and Faber, 1964.
Boston, Lucy, and Peter Boston. The Children of Green Knowe. Faber and Faber, 1954.
