Faber and Faber

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Publishing Alison Uttley
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.
124
When Cuckoo...
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...
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 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...
Publishing 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/.
Publishing 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...
Publishing 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
Publishing 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...
Publishing 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...
Publishing 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...
Publishing 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...
Publishing Alison Uttley
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...
Publishing 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.
Publishing Philip Larkin
PL had already begun to produce some of the poems that were later to make him known (including Wedding Wind, written in 1946). Towards the end of 1947 he typed up for Faber and Faber

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Texts

Larkin, Philip. Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940-1985. Editor Thwaite, Anthony, Faber and Faber, 1992.
Larkin, Philip. The Whitsun Weddings. Faber and Faber, 1964.
Lavery, Bryony. A Wedding Story. Faber and Faber, 2000.
Lavery, Bryony. Frozen. Faber and Faber, 2002.
Lavery, Bryony. “More Light”. New Connections, edited by Nick Drake, Faber and Faber, 1997.
Lavery, Bryony. More Light. Faber and Faber, 2001.
Lawrence, D. H. Pornography and Obscenity. Faber and Faber, 1929.
Lewis, Wyndham. One-Way Song. Faber and Faber, 1933.
Mirrlees, Hope. A Fly in Amber. Faber and Faber, 1962.
Mitchison, Naomi. The Big House. Faber and Faber, 1950.
Mitchison, Naomi. Travel Light. Faber and Faber, 1952.
Moody, Theodore William, and James Camlin Beckett. Queen’s, Belfast 1845-1949: The History of a University. Faber and Faber, 1959.
Moore, Marianne. Collected Poems. Faber and Faber, 1951.
Moore, Marianne. New Collected Poems. Editor White, Heather Cass, Faber and Faber, 2017.
Morgan, Fidelis, and Charlotte Charke. The Well-Known Troublemaker: A Life of Charlotte Charke. Faber and Faber, 1988.
Morrell, Lady Ottoline. Ottoline at Garsington. Editor Gathorne-Hardy, Robert, Faber and Faber, 1974.
Morrell, Lady Ottoline. Ottoline: The Early Memoirs of Lady Ottoline Morrell. Editor Gathorne-Hardy, Robert, Faber and Faber, 1963.
Morris, Jan. Faber and Faber, 1958.
Morris, Jan. Faber and Faber, 1965.
Morris, Jan. Cities. Faber and Faber, 1963.
Morris, Jan. Farewell the Trumpets. Faber and Faber, 1978.
Morris, Jan. Heaven’s Command. Faber and Faber, 1973.
Morris, Jan. Manhattan ’45. Faber and Faber, 1987.
Morris, Jan. Pax Britannica. Faber and Faber, 1968.
Morris, Jan. Sultan in Oman. Faber and Faber, 1957.