Fortune Press

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Publishing Philip Larkin
Its publisher, Reginald Ashley Caton of the Fortune Press , was notoriously incompetent and idle. Though he published a number of poets who are still remembered, his main interest seems to have been pornography.
Motion, Andrew. Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life. Faber and Faber, 1993.
75-7, 130-2
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, 1993.
154
A related draft and stories survive, but no complete manuscript. Larkin wrote that he was...
Textual Production Philip Larkin
PL 's first novel, Jill, again published with the Fortune Press , was as little noticed as his first poetry collection.
Motion, Andrew. Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life. Faber and Faber, 1993.
154, 158

Timeline

10 October 1934: The proceedings began against Fortune Press...

Writing climate item

10 October 1934

The proceedings began against Fortune Press for translations of works of an erotic nature.
Craig, Alec. The Banned Books of England and Other Countries. George Allen and Unwin, 1962.
92-3

Texts

Larkin, Philip. Jill. Fortune Press, 1946.
Larkin, Philip. The North Ship. Fortune Press, 1945.
Summers, Montague. The Gothic Quest. Fortune Press, 1938.
Thomas, Dylan. Eighteen Poems. Fortune Press, 1934.