This was designed as an introduction for readers unfamiliar with the poetry of the modern period, and ran from W. B. Yeats
to Ruthven Todd
. AR
followed it with an extended volume of The...
Publishing
Anne Ridler
AR
's first volume published with Faber & Faber
benefited from the patronage of her former bosses there. T. S. Eliot
recommended its publication,
Ridler, Anne. “Working for T.S. Eliot: A Personal Reminiscence”. Poetry Review, Vol.
73
, No. 1, pp. 46-9.
49
and the first edition appeared on expensive hand-made paper, which...
Textual Production
Laura Riding
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
Ezra Pound
Faber and Faber
published EP
's The Fifth Decad of Cantos, in which usury is a prominent theme.
Nadel, Ira Bruce, editor. “Chronology; Introduction”. The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound, Cambridge University Press, pp. xvii - xxxi; 1.
Another posthumous volume of SP
's poetry, Crossing the Water, was published through Faber and Faber
.
Tabor, Stephen. Sylvia Plath: An Analytical Bibliography. Meckler.
29-30
Lane, Gary, and Maria Stevens. Sylvia Plath: A Bibliography. The Scarecrow Press.
8
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Sylvia Plath
A story she wrote at twenty (in December 1952, within months of her rejection by Harvard summer school and her first serious suicide attempt), Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom, was rejected by Mademoiselle...
Publishing
Harold Pinter
Faber
printed the two plays together this year; Samuel French
issued an edition of Celebration alone in 2002.
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
Winsome Pinnock
WP
researched the actuality behind this play by talking with women in prison in London and Jamaica. The production required three performers to take on twelve roles between them. Pinnock had intended a mixed-race cast...
GO
completed his well-known satirical fable, Animal Farm, which was rejected for publication by Gollancz
, Cape
, Collins
, and Faber
(in the person of T. S. Eliot
).
Meyers, Jeffrey. A Reader’s Guide to George Orwell. Littlefield, Adams.
41
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Publishing
George Orwell
He published the book with Gollancz
after it was rejected by Cape
and Faber
. He chose his pseudonym from a list of names including P. S. Burton, Kenneth Miles, and H. Leis Allways. He...
Publishing
Tillie Olsen
The stories were I Stand Here Ironing, Hey Sailor, What Ship?, O Yes, and the title story. Lippincott
, who first published the volume, lost money on it. It was published in...
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Texts
Coward, Rosalind. The Whole Truth. Faber and Faber, 1989.
Cowie, Anne. “Organized Labour”. Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting since 1900, edited by Peta Allen and Moya Jolley, Faber and Faber, 1982.
Cunnington, C. Willett et al. The History of Underclothes. Faber and Faber, 1981.
Daniels, Sarah. Morning Glory. Faber and Faber, 2001.
Daniels, Sarah. “Taking Breath”. New Connections 99. New Plays for Young People, Faber and Faber, 1999, pp. 561-0.
Devlin, Anne. After Easter. Faber and Faber, 1994.
Devlin, Anne. Ourselves Alone. Faber and Faber, 1986.
Devlin, Anne. The Way-Paver. Faber and Faber, 1986.
Dickinson, Emily. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Editor Johnson, Thomas, Faber and Faber, 1970.
Drake, Nick et al. “Introduction, editorial materials”. New Connections 99. New Plays for Young People, Faber and Faber, 1999, pp. vii - xiii, 602.
Duffy, Carol Ann, editor. 1914: Poetry Remembers. Faber and Faber, 2013.
Duffy, Carol Ann et al. Grimm Tales. Faber and Faber, 1996.
Eliot, T. S. “Apology for the Countess of Pembroke”. The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism, Faber and Faber, pp. 37-52.
Eliot, T. S. Collected Poems 1909-1962. Faber and Faber, 1968.
Eliot, T. S., and Djuna Barnes. “Introduction”. Nightwood, Faber and Faber, 1950.
Eliot, T. S. Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F.H. Bradley. Faber and Faber.
Eliot, T. S. Murder in the Cathedral. Faber and Faber, 1936.
Eliot, T. S. Notes Towards the Definition of Culture. Faber and Faber.
Eliot, T. S. Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats. Faber and Faber.
Eliot, T. S. Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats. Faber and Faber, 1943.
Eliot, T. S. On Poetry and Poets. Faber and Faber, 1957.
Eliot, T. S. Selected Essays, 1917-1932. Faber and Faber.
Eliot, T. S. Sweeney Agonistes. Faber and Faber.
Eliot, T. S. The Cocktail Party. Faber and Faber, 1950.
Eliot, T. S. The Confidential Clerk. Faber and Faber, 1954.