Blackett, Monica. The Mark of the Maker: A Portrait of Helen Waddell. Constable, 1973.
9-10
Folio Society
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Employer | Fay Weldon | From Saffron Walden FW
commuted to London to work for the Daily Mirror, answering readers' queries about hire purchase problems. She was threatened with the sack after losing a bit of stained blanket she... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth De la Pasture | Novelist Evelyn Waugh
was an ardent admirer of this book after coming on a copy by chance in 1950. His children liked it as much as he did, and thirty years later one of them,... |
| Publishing | Helen Waddell | HW
's sister preserved all her letters, and a chaotic mass of other manuscript material. Meg would have burned these if Monica Blackett
had not wished to use them in her biography. |
| Publishing | Muriel Spark | Macmillan
recognised the exceptional appeal of this novel with a print-run of 15,150, more than twice that of Spark's previous novel. Its appearance was followed by another massive row with the firm in the person... |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Jennings | EJ
's translationThe Sonnets of Michelangelo, with selected Michelangelo drawings, was published by the LondonFolio Society
. The British National Bibliography. Council of the British National Bibliography; British Library, Bibliographic Services Division, 1950. Morrish, Hilary et al. The Poet Speaks: Interviews with Contemporary Poets. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1966. 91 |
| Publishing | Isabella Bird | Before publication in book form, some of the letters appeared in periodicals such as Out West and The Leisure Hour. The book was translated for a French edition and published in America by G. P. Putnam Sons |
| Publishing | Jan Morris | Morris did much of the research for this book by traveling to sites of the former empire in preparation for writing the essays that were later collected in Cities. Johns, Derek. Ariel. A Literary Life of Jan Morris. Faber and Faber, 2016. 90 |
| Publishing | Elizabeth De la Pasture | It seems to have been her only work for the young. The first reprint was in 1914, illustrated by E. T. Reed
. The beautiful Folio Society
edition of 1980, with illustrations by John Lawrence |
| Publishing | Isak Dinesen | She wrote it first in English and translated it herself into Danish. Starting as notes taken at Mbogani House in Kenya, it was continued at Rungstedlund and finished at Skagen. Begun as a... |
| Publishing | Daphne Du Maurier | Nicholas Roeg
used this book for a successful film, Don't Look Now, though, like Hitchcock, he toned down DDM
's hinted male violence and flattened out her moral ambiguity. Du Maurier was said to... |
| Reception | Eliza Parsons | The Critical Review judged this a novel not one of the first order, or even of the second, and its characters too darkly tinted. The two plots were not sufficiently connected and the language had... |
| Reception | Stella Gibbons | The book was adapted several times over the years. It was made into a play (1936), a musical (1965), a television serial (1968), and a film by John Schlesinger
(1995), which confounded expectations by doing... |
| Textual Production | Joanna Trollope | JT
supplied an introduction to Rose Macaulay
's The Towers of Trebizond for a handsome edition published by the Folio Society
in 2005. 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. |
| Textual Production | Joanna Trollope | JT
's modernised retelling of Sense and Sensibility (published in October 2013), is one of a series of projected Jane Austen
updates. In January 2014 Trollope discussed Austen in a podcast with Fay Weldon
in... |
| Textual Production | Elspeth Huxley | EH
thought a perfect precept for biography was voiced by Shakespeare
's Othello: nothing extenuate, nor set down ought in malice. qtd. in Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins, 2002. 427 |
Timeline
February 1947: The Folio Society was founded in London by...
Writing climate item
February 1947
The Folio Society
was founded in London by Christopher Sandford
, Charles Ede
, and A. J. Bott
.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
185
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
122
Texts
Bunyan, John, and Agnes Beaumont. The Trial of John Bunyan and the Persecution of the Puritans: Selections from the Writings of John Bunyan and Agnes Beaumont. Editor Furlong, Monica, Folio Society, 1978.
De la Pasture, Elizabeth et al. The Unlucky Family. Folio Society, 1980.
Michelangelo, and Michael Ayrton. The Sonnets of Michelangelo. Translator Jennings, Elizabeth, Folio Society, 1961.
Ketton-Cremer, Robert Wyndham et al. “Introduction”. Letters, Folio Society, 1951.
O’Donovan, John et al. “Introduction”. Some Experiences of an Irish R. M., Folio Society, 1984, p. vii - xvii.
Waugh, Auberon et al. “Introduction”. The Unlucky Family, Folio Society, 1980, p. vii - xii.
Waugh, Daisy et al. “The Unlucky Family”. The Unlucky Family, Folio Society, 1980, p. xii - xiii.