They had begun planning such a book after meeting at a Colonial Conference in summer 1941, at Oxford
, where Perham was Reader in Colonial Administration. Lord Lugard
supplied an introduction.
Messerli, Douglas. Djuna Barnes: A Bibliography. David Lewis.
12
Field, Andrew. Djuna: The Formidable Miss Barnes. University of Texas.
212-3
Publishing
Iris Murdoch
The first novel which IM
offered to a publisher was read by T. S. Eliot
for Faber and Faber
; he rejected it, perhaps on grounds of the wartime paper shortage.
Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins.
She received an impressive number of honours from various universities. She had an Honorary DLitt from the Universities of Buckingham (1992), London (1993), Hertfordshire (1994), Glasgow (1995), Durham (1998), and Portsmouth (1999). She also had...
Reception
Maggie Gee
Reviews were very good, and the Times drew attention to the novel by publishing an extended excerpt.
Gee, Maggie. “Bottom drawer”. Mslexia, Vol.
15
, p. 42.
42
It was indeed long-listed for the Booker, and Faber and Faber
asked to see her next book....
Reception
Seamus Heaney
These poems attracted the attention of Charles Monteith
, a director of the publishing firm of Faber and Faber
, who was also born in Northern Ireland. The result was the offer of a book...
Residence
Djuna Barnes
At the news that Faber and Faber
had agreed to publish Nightwood, DB
left New York again for Europe, initially to Paris.
Herring, Phillip. Djuna: The Life and Work of Djuna Barnes. Penguin.
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Textual Production
Mary Wesley
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.
17
Textual Production
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
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
Textual Production
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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Texts
James, P. D. Death of an Expert Witness. Faber and Faber, 1977.
James, P. D. Devices and Desires. Faber and Faber, 1989.
James, P. D. Innocent Blood. Faber and Faber, 1980.
James, P. D. Original Sin. Faber and Faber, 1994.
James, P. D. Shroud for a Nightingale. Faber and Faber, 1971.
James, P. D. The Black Tower. Faber and Faber, 1975.
James, P. D. The Children of Men. Faber and Faber, 1992.
James, P. D. The Private Patient. Faber and Faber, 2008.
James, P. D. The Skull beneath the Skin. Faber and Faber, 1982.
James, P. D. Time to Be in Earnest. Faber and Faber, 1999.
James, P. D. Unnatural Causes. Faber and Faber, 1967.
Jellicoe, Ann. “Ann Jellicoe Talks to Sue Todd”. The Knack and The Sport of My Mad Mother, Faber and Faber, 1985, pp. 9-23.
Jellicoe, Ann. Shelley. Faber and Faber, 1966.
Jellicoe, Ann. The Giveaway. Faber and Faber, 1970.
Jellicoe, Ann. “The Knack”. The Knack and The Sport of My Mad Mother, Faber and Faber, 1985, pp. 25-98.
Jellicoe, Ann, and London Observer. “The Sport of My Mad Mother”. The Observer Plays, Faber and Faber, 1958.
Jellicoe, Ann. “The Sport of My Mad Mother”. The Knack and The Sport of My Mad Mother, Faber and Faber, 1985, pp. 99-168.
Johns, Derek. Ariel. A Literary Life of Jan Morris. Faber and Faber, 2016.
Joyce, James. Finnegans Wake. Faber and Faber, 1939.
Keegan, Claire. Foster. Faber and Faber, 2010.
La Tourette, Aileen. “Passing”. Mae West Is Dead: Recent Lesbian and Gay Fiction, edited by Adam Mars-Jones, Faber and Faber, 1983, pp. 178-81.
Larkin, Philip. A Girl in Winter. Faber and Faber, 1947.
Larkin, Philip. All What Jazz: a record diary 1961-68. Faber and Faber, 1970.
Larkin, Philip. High Windows. Faber and Faber, 1974.