Faber and Faber

Connections

Connections Sort descending Author name Excerpt
Anthologization Anne Enright
AE first reached print, with four short stories entitled Smile, Felix, Thirst, and Seascape, included in Faber 's First Fictions number 10.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Bracken, Claire, and Susan Cahill, editors. “Introduction”. Anne Enright, Irish Academic Press, 2011, pp. 1-12.
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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.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Anthologization Elaine Feinstein
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 .
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
5035 (1 October 1999): 9
Beowulf. Translator Heaney, Seamus, Faber, 1999.
prelims
Anthologization Winsome Pinnock
Can You Keep a Secret? appeared in a volume edited by Nick Drake , Joanne Reardon , and Suzy Graham-Adriani : New Connections 99: New Plays for Young People, published by Faber and Faber in 1999.
Dedications Ann Jellicoe
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 ...
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...
Employer T. S. Eliot
TSE took leave of absence from his job with Faber and Faber to accept an invitation from Harvard University to hold the Charles Eliot Norton professorship at Harvard for the academic year 1932-33.
Ackroyd, Peter. T.S. Eliot. Hamish Hamilton, 1984.
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Employer T. S. Eliot
TSE was appointed by Geoffrey Faber as literary editor and member of the board of directors at the new publishing house Faber and Gwyer (later Faber and Faber) , a position he held until his death.
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...
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.
197
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
1970 (4 November 1939): 638
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...
Literary responses Edna O'Brien
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...

Timeline

1924: Geoffrey Cust Faber entered into partnership...

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1924

Geoffrey Cust Faber entered into partnership with Maurice and Alsina Gwyer , owners of the Scientific Press at 28 Southampton Street, near the Strand, to establish the firm Faber and Gwyer Limited .
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
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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.
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Mullan, John. “Style council”. The Guardian, 25 Sept. 2004, pp. Review 34 - 5.
Review 34

1929: The publishing firm of Faber and Gwyer became...

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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

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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.