An ex-pacifist when the second world war broke out, DA
recoiled from joining the forces or undertaking other war work, but eventually got an office job (the merest fetching and carrying) with the BBC
at...
Publishing
Muriel Spark
Her recently discarded boyfriend, Howard Sergeant
, annoyed her by planning a simultaneous, rival Wordsworth book. Tribute to Wordsworth was published by André Deutsch
, who was then working for Allan Wingate
. MS
Textual Features
Diana Athill
Part one is the story of the publishing houses that DA
worked with. She begins by explaining that business figures (which someone had mentioned as the key to an interesting book about publishing) would not...
Textual Features
Theodora Benson
In 1951 TB
returned to partnership with Bentley
though not with Askwith in a different treatment of famous people, London Immortals in Allan Wingate
's The Londoners' Library series. This goes through London street by...
Timeline
Late 1945: André Deutsch established the publishing...