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 et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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.
321
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...

Writing climate item

1957

Barrie and Rockliff publishing was founded after Barrie Books purchased the firm of R. H. Rockliff .
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
36

1965: Barrie and Rockliff publishers (formerly...

Writing climate item

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 .
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
36
Mumby, Frank Arthur, and Ian Norrie. Mumby’s Publishing and Bookselling in the Twentieth Century. 6th ed., Bell and Hyman, 1982.
125

Texts

Cross, Colin. The Fascists in Britain. Barrie and Rockliff, 1961.
Rea, Dominico. A Blush of Shame. Translator Duffy, Maureen, Barrie and Rockliff, 1963.
Pitter, Ruth. Poems, 1926-1966. Barrie and Rockliff, 1968.