Faber and Faber

Connections

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Textual Production W. H. Auden
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.
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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.
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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.
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OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Winsome Pinnock
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 .
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
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Textual Production Phyllis Bottome
PB 's novel Within the Cup, which warns against England dissociating itself from the Nazi atrocities in Europe, was published by Faber and Faber .
Lassner, Phyllis. British Women Writiers of World War II: Battlegrounds of Their Own. St Martin’s Press.
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OCLC WorldCat. 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.
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Textual Production Timberlake Wertenbaker
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...

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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 .

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.