Bracken, Claire, and Susan Cahill, editors. “Introduction”. Anne Enright, Irish Academic Press, 2011, pp. 1-12.
2, n4
Anthologization
Bryony Lavery
BL
's More Light, a play for children of secondary-school age commissioned by the Education Department of the Royal National Theatre
, was published by Faber and Faber
in New Connections: New Plays for Young People.
EF
was elated when she was invited by Faber and Faber
to contribute to Poetry: introduction 1, 1969 (at the instigation, she said, of Ted Hughes
). Her elation was short-lived since this news...
Anthologization
Seamus Heaney
SH
issued from Faber
his translation of the Old English epic poem Beowulf (commissioned for the NortonAnthology of English Literature), which he dedicated to the memory of Ted Hughes
.
AJ
wrote the play at the request of Bill Gaskill
, the Court's new manager. She was dissatisfied with her own direction of this production, and preferred the student production she directed at RADA
...
Ackroyd, Peter. T.S. Eliot. Hamish Hamilton, 1984.
152
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
45
Employer
Anne Ridler
AR
worked at Faber & Faber
as secretary and copy-editor, first for Richard de la Mare
and from late 1936 for T. S. Eliot
. Her duties included helping Eliot select poetry for The Criterion...
Employer
Anne Ridler
This work, however, was not paid. AR
decided that the only way to get into publishing professionally would be to become a secretary. In this capacity she started work for Faber and Faber
at the...
Ackroyd, Peter. T.S. Eliot. Hamish Hamilton, 1984.
192-3
Family and Intimate relationships
Caroline Blackwood
Lowell, her third husband, was called by his friends Cal, short for Caligula). In spring 1970, at a time when his bipolar disorder was making him crazy, he stayed the night at CB
's London...
Intertextuality and Influence
Phyllis Bottome
PB
published with Faber and Faber
a biography of her mentor Alfred Adler
, entitled Alfred Adler, Apostle of Freedom.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
Lee Brackstone, who bought the manuscript of this book for Faber and Faber
, alerted its potential readership, pre-publication, to expect the masterpiece of O'Brien's career, a book which reminds us why she is...
Literary responses
Anne Ridler
When Anne Bradby (later AR
) plucked up courage to show some early poems to T. S. Eliot
(though not requesting publication by Faber and Faber
), she was encouraged by his advice: I should...
Literary responses
Cecily Mackworth
T. S. Eliot
, an early and appreciative reader of this book, invited the author to meet him over tea at his Faber and Faber
office in Russell Square. Mackworth, however, felt intimidated by...
Timeline
1924: Geoffrey Cust Faber entered into partnership...
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
114
1928: The first prose work by poet Siegfried Sassoon,...
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1928
The first prose work by poet Siegfried Sassoon
, his early autobiography Memoirs of a Foxhunting Man, became the first best-seller published by Faber and Faber
(which adopted this name the following year).
Mount, Ferdinand. “Trouble down there: Tea With Sassoon”. London Review of Books, 7 Aug. 2003, pp. 11-13.
1
Mullan, John. “Style council”. The Guardian, 25 Sept. 2004, pp. Review 34 - 5.
Review 34
1929: The publishing firm of Faber and Gwyer became...
Writing climate item
1929
The publishing firm of Faber and Gwyer
became Faber and Faber, when the Gwyer family pulled out.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Geoffrey Faber
17 September 1954: William Golding's first novel, The Lord of...
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17 September 1954
William Golding
's first novel, The Lord of the Flies, reached print from Faber and Faber
after being rejected by twenty-one other publishers.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
17 September 2009
Akwaeke Emezi became the first non-binary author to be longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction
Writing climate item
4 March 2019
Akwaeke Emezi
became the first non-binary author to be longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, for their novel Freshwater.
“Announcing the Women’s Prize 2019 Longlist”. Women’s Prize for Fiction, https://www.womensprizeforfiction.co.uk/features/features/news/announcing-the-womens-prize-for-fiction-2019-longlist.
“2019 Prize”. Women’s Prize for Fiction, https://www.womensprizeforfiction.co.uk/2019-prize.
Texts
Adcock, Fleur, editor. The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Women’s Poetry. Faber and Faber, 1987.
Amis, Kingsley, editor. The Faber Popular Reciter. Faber and Faber, 1978.
Auden, W. H. Another Time. Faber and Faber, 1940.
Auden, W. H. Collected Poems. Editor Mendelson, Edward, Faber and Faber, 1976.
Auden, W. H. Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957. Faber and Faber, 1969.
Auden, W. H., and Christopher Isherwood. Journey to a War. Faber and Faber, 1939.
Auden, W. H., and Louis MacNeice. Letters from Iceland. Faber and Faber, 1937.
Auden, W. H. Look, Stranger!. Faber and Faber, 1936.
Auden, W. H. Poems. Faber and Faber, 1930.
Auden, W. H. Secondary Worlds. Faber and Faber, 1968.
Auden, W. H. Thank You, Fog. Faber and Faber, 1974.
Auden, W. H. The Dyer’s Hand and Other Essays. Faber and Faber, 1975.
Auden, W. H. The Enchafèd Flood; or, the Romantic Iconography of the Sea. Faber and Faber, 1950.
Auden, W. H. The Shield of Achilles. Faber and Faber, 1955.
Barnes, Djuna. Nightwood. Faber and Faber, 1936.
Barnes, Djuna. The Antiphon. Faber and Faber, 1958.
Beckett, Samuel. Krapp’s Last Tape. Faber and Faber, 1958.
Beckett, Samuel. Not I. Faber and Faber, 1971.
Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot. Faber and Faber, 1955.
Benson, Theodora. Best Stories of Theodora Benson. Faber and Faber, 1940.
Benson, Theodora. “Harry was Good to the Girls”. Stories of the Underworld, edited by Peter Cheyney, Faber and Faber, 1942, pp. 191-5.
Benson, Theodora. Sweethearts and Wives. Faber and Faber, 1942.
Billington, Michael. Harold Pinter. Faber and Faber, 2007.
Boston, Lucy, and Peter Boston. A Stranger at Green Knowe. Faber and Faber, 1961.
Boston, Lucy, and Peter Boston. An Enemy at Green Knowe. Faber and Faber, 1964.