WHA
established prominence among his generation of poets with his first commercially published volume, Poems, issued by Faber
.
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Bloomfield, Barry Cambray, and Edward Mendelson. W. H. Auden: A Bibliography 1924-1969. University Press of Virginia.
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Textual Production
Winsome Pinnock
WP
researched the actuality behind this play by talking with women in prison in London and Jamaica. The production required three performers to take on twelve roles between them. Pinnock had intended a mixed-race cast...
Textual Production
Anne Devlin
After a month, the production transferred to the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs
in London. It has also been produced in Washington, DC, and in Germany, and was published by Faber and Faber
Textual Production
Vita Sackville-West
VSW
followed her Behn biography two years later with Andrew Marvell, to open Faber and Faber
's series The Poets on the Poets (in which the second volume was provided by Eliot
writing on Dante
).
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin.
222
Textual Production
W. H. Auden
WHA
's second commercially published volume appeared with the title Look, Stranger! Poems by W.H. Auden (chosen at Faber and Faber
in his absence in Iceland). He hated the title, and next year's US edition...
Textual Production
Anne Devlin
The play also had a Belfast production that year, and was published by Faber and Faber
.
Devlin, Anne. After Easter. Faber and Faber.
prelims
Cerquoni, Enrica. “In Conversation with Anne Devlin”. Theatre Talk: Voices of Irish Theatre Practitioners, edited by Lilian Chambers et al., Carysfort Press, pp. 107-23.
123
Textual Production
Phyllis Bottome
Faber and Faber
published PB
's London Pride, a novel about the lives of working-class people during wartime.
Calder, Robert. Beware the British Serpent. McGill-Queen’s University Press.
It was published the same year by Faber and Faber
, in a non-finalised text since the play was still in rehearsal.
Pinnock, Winsome. One Under. Faber and Faber.
prelims
Textual Production
Carol Ann Duffy
CAD
edited a selection of Sylvia Plath
's poetry for Faber
in 2012, and in 2013 she edited A Laureate's Choice: 101 Poems for Children, with illustrations by Emily Gravett
.
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Textual Production
Jo Shapcott
JS
published with FaberHer Book: Poems 1988-1998, which reprints her selections from her three previous collections.
Shapcott, Jo. “Love in the lab”. Guardian Unlimited.
Shapcott, Jo. Her Book: Poems 1988-1998. Faber and Faber.
prelims
Textual Production
Seamus Heaney
SH
published his final poetry collection, Human Chain, with his usual publishers, Faber
.
TW
's The Break of Day opened at the Royal Court Theatre
in London after touring the UK; it was published by Faber and Faber
in London and Boston in the same year.
Wertenbaker, Timberlake. The Break of Day. Faber and Faber.
title-page, back cover
Textual Production
Sylvia Plath
Another posthumous volume of SP
's poetry, Crossing the Water, was published through Faber and Faber
.
Tabor, Stephen. Sylvia Plath: An Analytical Bibliography. Meckler.
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Lane, Gary, and Maria Stevens. Sylvia Plath: A Bibliography. The Scarecrow Press.
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Textual Production
Jo Shapcott
During the same year she and Matthew Sweeney
jointly edited an anthology, Emergency Kit: Poems for Strange Times, which draws on worldwide modern writing in English. In 2002 she edited the anthology Discourses...
Timeline
1924: Geoffrey Cust Faber entered into partnership...
1928: The first prose work by poet Siegfried Sassoon,...
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1928
The first prose work by poet Siegfried Sassoon
, his early autobiographyMemoirs of a Foxhunting Man, became the first best-seller published by Faber and Faber
(which adopted this name the following year).
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.
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.
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.
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.
Boston, Lucy, and Peter Boston. The Children of Green Knowe. Faber and Faber, 1954.