Faber and Faber

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Publishing Alison Uttley
A bomb on the London offices of Faber destroyed (among other things) the typescript of AU 's play Little Grey Rabbit to the Rescue, which had been rejected for the stage by the Theatre Royal, Windsor
Publishing P. D. James
She used her maiden name for this and all her subsequent publications, as James was the essential me and my family name from the beginning.
Gidez, Richard. P. D. James. Twayne.
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She published the book with Faber and Faber ...
Publishing Djuna Barnes
DB had tried to find a publisher for Nightwood while she was living in New York, but the manuscript was turned down repeatedly. Emily Coleman suggested revisions, which Barnes carried out. Coleman also exploited literary...
Publishing Mary Butts
This book, originally titled Alexander the Great, was completed in 1931, but MB had some difficulty getting it published. She sent her manuscript to T. S. Eliot at Faber and Faber , but he...
Publishing Djuna Barnes
T. S. Eliot was once again instrumental in editing her manuscript and recommending it for publication with Faber and Faber . However, he wrote a blurb for the play which suggested frustration at DB 's...
Publishing Julia O'Faolain
This novel met with the threat of a libel action (about which Charles Monteith of Faber and Faber was stoical) from a woman whom JOF described in hyperbolic terms as having a termite-infested bed. O'Faolain...
Publishing T. S. Eliot
Its date—the first celebration during World War Two of the Christian festival of resurrection—was significant, and was also a factor in the poem's impact. Reprinted as a separate publication by Faber and Faber in May...
Publishing Alison Uttley
After many rejections, AU began a series involving the scapegrace Tim Rabbit with The Adventures of No Ordinary Rabbit, published by Faber in November 1937, with illustrations by Alec Buckels . Years later, a...
Publishing Ann Jellicoe
The play opened in Cambridge because the Royal Court , despite their earlier supportiveness, wanted to test the waters before staging another Jellicoe play in London. AJ credits John Osborne for persuading them to produce...
Publishing Djuna Barnes
Most of DB 's later publications were collections of previously published works. Her Selected Works, which included Spillway (a collection of short stories), The Antiphon, and Nightwood, were published in the USA...
Publishing Julia O'Faolain
Her father, Sean O'Faolain , had included in his Collected Stories, 1983, a piece whose title reproduces the Yeats phrase exactly: No Country for Old Men.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
JOF got the idea for this novel...
Publishing Frances Cornford
In order that her son should be the illustrator of this volume, Cornford rejected an offer from Faber and Faber to publish her poems.
Dowson, Jane et al. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by Jane Dowson and Jane Dowson, Enitharmon Press, p. xiii - xxv.
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Performance of text T. S. Eliot
TSE 's earliest verse play, the historical drama Murder in the Cathedral, had its first performance, in the chapter-house of Canterbury Cathedral. It was published the next year by Faber and Faber .
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century.
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Drabble, Margaret, and Jenny Stringer, editors. The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press.
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Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press.
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Performance of text T. S. Eliot
TSE 's drama The Confidential Clerk was first performed at the EdinburghFestival , and it was published by Faber and Faber the next year.
Gallup, Donald Clifford. T.S. Eliot: A Bibliography. Harcourt, Brace.
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Occupation Jo Shapcott
JS began teaching English at Rolle College in Exmouth (one of the three main campuses of the University of Plymouth , which, however, is due to be relocated in a movement towards centralization). She then...

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Texts

Morris, Jan. The Hashemite Kings. Faber and Faber, 1959.
Morris, Jan. The Market of Seleukia. Faber and Faber, 1957.
Morris, Jan. Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere. Faber and Faber, 2001.
Morris, Jan. Venice. Faber and Faber, 1960.
Motion, Andrew. Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life. Faber and Faber, 1993.
Nott, Kathleen. An Elderly Retired Man. Faber and Faber, 1963.
O’Brien, Edna. Country Girl: A Memoir. Faber and Faber, 2012.
O’Brien, Edna. Saints and Sinners. Faber and Faber, 2011.
O’Brien, Edna. The Little Red Chairs. Faber and Faber, 2015.
O’Brien, Edna. The Little Red Chairs. Faber and Faber, 2016.
O’Brien, Edna. The Love Object: Selected Stories. Faber and Faber, 2013.
O’Faolain, Julia. Godded and Codded. Faber and Faber, 1970.
O’Faolain, Julia. Man in the Cellar. Faber and Faber, 1974.
O’Faolain, Julia. Trespassers, A Memoir. Faber and Faber, 2014.
O’Faolain, Julia. Under the Rose. Faber and Faber, 2015.
O’Faolain, Julia. We Might See Sights!. Faber and Faber, 1968.
O’Faolain, Julia. Women in the Wall. Faber and Faber, 1975.
Oman, Carola. Britain Against Napoleon. Faber and Faber, 1942.
Padel, Ruth. I’m a Man: Sex, Gods and Rock’n’Roll. Faber and Faber, 2000.
Peck, Winifred. A Little Learning; or, A Victorian Childhood. Faber and Faber, 1952.
Peck, Winifred. Bewildering Cares. Faber and Faber, 1940.
Peck, Winifred. Home for the Holidays. Faber and Faber, 1955.
Peck, Winifred. House-Bound. Faber and Faber, 1942.
Peck, Winifred. There is a Fortress. Faber and Faber, 1945.
Peck, Winifred. They Come, They Go. Faber and Faber, 1937.