Barrie and Rockliff

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Publishing Lady Cynthia Asquith
She was persuaded to write these memoirs by Jimmie or James Barrie , nephew of her late employer Sir James Barrie , as a text for his recently-launched publishing firm .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Publishing Viola Meynell
Barrie brought out 3,000 copies, which sold out in the first month. A second printing of 2,000 copies came out in July.
MacKenzie, Raymond N. A Critical Biography of English Novelist Viola Meynell, 1885-1956. Edwin Mellen, 2002.
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Wealth and Poverty Lady Cynthia Asquith
Money had became tight for LCA and her husband (though cushioned by their wealthy and generous extended families) when he joined up in the First World War, cutting off the income from the Bar which...

Timeline

1957
Barrie and Rockliff publishing was founded after Barrie Books purchased the firm of R. H. Rockliff .
1965
Barrie and Rockliff publishers (formerly James Barrie imprint) bought out both Herbert Jenkins Limited , publisher of P. G. Wodehouse , and Hammond, Hammond , publishers of Radclyffe Hall .