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...
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Maggie Gee
She meant this book to be a saga of English working-class life in the twentieth century, based on her own family, but found she was writing about the horrors of factory farming. Writing at a...
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Philip Larkin
PL
's second novel, A Girl in Winter, appeared, having been placed by his agent, A. P. Watt
, with Faber and Faber
. It sold 5,000 copies in the year of its publication...
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Elizabeth Robins
The book was rejected by several publishers before Heinemann
took it on.
John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge.
232
One of those who rejected it in an earlier form was the Hogarth Press
, probably because it turned out too long...
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Maggie Gee
This time Faber
paid her £10,000, but they did not come up to their magnificent plans for handling the paperback. About now MG
left her agent for a younger one, a woman.
Gee, Maggie. My Animal Life. Telegram Books.
152-3
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Alison Uttley
From the time she moved south, her output was staggering. Between 1942 and 1945, she published fifteen prose books and a play, as well as placing articles and making broadcasts. In autumn 1944, she began...
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Philip Larkin
PL
's The Whitsun Weddings, his first poetry publication with Faber and Faber
, resulted from an invitation from Charles Monteith
of that company, issued years earlier after he had read Church Going in The Spectator.
Larkin, Philip. Collected Poems. Editor Thwaite, Anthony, Faber and Faber; the Marvell Press.
77
Brennan, Maeve. The Philip Larkin I Knew. Manchester University Press.
7
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Lucy Boston
LB
was already a passionate painter when she turned to writing, infused with enthusiasm by the house she had bought. The manor gave her the inspiration for her books, and she has said that All...
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Elizabeth Ham
It appeared in a version which is only about half as long as the original. Eric Gillett
, the editor, compressed the book by fifty thousand words, partly because of wartime paper shortage, but partly...
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Alison Uttley
This book caused AU
much anguish in writing. She took the idea from the Babington ancestral home at Dethick, close to her childhood home of Castle Top Farm, and from a dream she...
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Philip Larkin
The book went through many stages and revisions before publication: the first draft had been finished in February 1944.
Motion, Andrew. Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life. Faber and Faber.
154
A related draft and stories survive, but no complete manuscript. Larkin wrote that he was...
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Carol Ann Duffy
Faber and Faber
's Grimm Tales, 1996, brings together CAD
's versions with Supple's (often only slightly changed) performance scripts, with Melanie Still
's illustrations, and various kinds of information designed to assist new...
After years of dissatisfaction at the small price she was paid for her books, AU
was staggered in March 1942 at receiving a royalty cheque from Faber
for £297.
Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph.
181
A year later her royalty...
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W. H. Auden
WHA
published with Random House
in New York a book of criticism entitled The Enchafèd Flood; or, the Romantic Iconography of the Sea; it appeared from Faber
in London the following year.
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.
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Texts
Eliot, T. S. The Elder Statesman. Faber and Faber, 1959.
Eliot, T. S. The Family Reunion. Faber and Faber, 1939.
Eliot, T. S. The Idea of a Christian Society. Faber and Faber.
Eliot, T. S. The Letters of T.S. Eliot. Editor Eliot, Valerie, Faber and Faber, 1988.
Eliot, T. S. The Waste Land Drafts. Editor Eliot, Valerie, Faber and Faber, 1971.
Ellmann, Richard. Yeats: The Man and the Masks. Faber and Faber, 1961.
Empson, William. The Gathering Storm. Faber and Faber, 1940.
Farjeon, Eleanor, and Clare Leighton. Perkin the Pedlar. Faber and Faber, 1932.
Figes, Eva. B. Faber and Faber, 1972.
Figes, Eva. Little Eden. Faber and Faber, 1978.
Ham, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. Elizabeth Ham, by Herself, 1783-1820, edited by Eric Gillett, Faber and Faber, 1945, pp. 5-12.
Goodman, Lizbeth, editor. Mythic Women/Real Women. Faber and Faber, 2000.
Graves, Robert von Ranke. The White Goddess. Faber and Faber, 1948.
Greer, Germaine, editor. 101 Poems by 101 Women. Faber and Faber, 2001.
Ham, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Ham, by Herself, 1783-1820. Editor Gillett, Eric, Faber and Faber, 1945.
Hughes, Ted, and Sylvia Plath. “Introduction”. Collected Poems, Faber and Faber, pp. 13-17.
Hughes, Ted. Letters of Ted Hughes. Editor Reid, Christopher, Faber and Faber, 2007.
Huxley, Elspeth. Peter Scott: Painter and Naturalist. Faber and Faber, 1993.
Huxley, Elspeth, and Margery Perham. Race and Politics in Kenya. Faber and Faber, 1944.
Iremonger, Lucille. The Ghosts of Versailles. Faber and Faber, 1957.
James, P. D. A Certain Justice. Faber and Faber, 1997.
James, P. D. A Mind to Murder. Faber and Faber, 1963.
James, P. D. A Taste for Death. Faber and Faber, 1986.
James, P. D. An Unsuitable Job for a Woman. Faber and Faber, 1972.
James, P. D. Cover Her Face. Faber and Faber, 1962.