At the end of that year, Faber
rejected The Secret Spring, as did another publisher in February 1933. AU
then wrote off that project, since she had plenty more on hand.
Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph.
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When Cuckoo...
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...
Publishing
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...
Publishing
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...
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...
Reception
P. D. James
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....
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
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...
Textual Production
Anne Devlin
After a month, the production transferred to the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs
in London. It has also been produced in Washington, DC, and in Germany, and was published by Faber and Faber
Textual Production
W. H. Auden
WHA
established prominence among his generation of poets with his first commercially published volume, Poems, issued by Faber
.
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.
Bloomfield, Barry Cambray, and Edward Mendelson. W. H. Auden: A Bibliography 1924-1969. University Press of Virginia.
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Textual Production
Anne Devlin
The play also had a Belfast production that year, and was published by Faber and Faber
.
Devlin, Anne. After Easter. Faber and Faber.
prelims
Cerquoni, Enrica. “In Conversation with Anne Devlin”. Theatre Talk: Voices of Irish Theatre Practitioners, edited by Lilian Chambers et al., Carysfort Press, pp. 107-23.
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Textual Production
Vita Sackville-West
VSW
followed her Behn biography two years later with Andrew Marvell, to open Faber and Faber
's series The Poets on the Poets (in which the second volume was provided by Eliot
writing on Dante
).
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin.
222
Textual Production
W. H. Auden
WHA
's second commercially published volume appeared with the title Look, Stranger! Poems by W.H. Auden (chosen at Faber and Faber
in his absence in Iceland). He hated the title, and next year's US edition...
Textual Production
Phyllis Bottome
Faber and Faber
published PB
's London Pride, a novel about the lives of working-class people during wartime.
Calder, Robert. Beware the British Serpent. McGill-Queen’s University Press.
