PL
had already begun to produce some of the poems that were later to make him known (including Wedding Wind, written in 1946). Towards the end of 1947 he typed up for Faber and Faber
Publishing
Alison Uttley
From the time she moved south, her output was staggering. Between 1942 and 1945, she published fifteen prose books and a play, as well as placing articles and making broadcasts. In autumn 1944, she began...
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
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, 1996, p. xiii - xxv.
xv
Publishing
Maggie Gee
She meant this book to be a saga of English working-class life in the twentieth century, based on her own family, but found she was writing about the horrors of factory farming. Writing at a...
Publishing
Alison Uttley
This book caused AU
much anguish in writing. She took the idea from the Babington ancestral home at Dethick, close to her childhood home of Castle Top Farm, and from a dream she...
Publishing
Maggie Gee
This time Faber
paid her £10,000, but they did not come up to their magnificent plans for handling the paperback. About now MG
left her agent for a younger one, a woman.
Gee, Maggie. My Animal Life. Telegram Books, 2010.
152-3
Publishing
Deborah Levy
This was Levy's first book to face the difficult environment for literary novels produced by the rise of Amazon
and the end of regulation for book prices. Less commercial, more cerebral fiction was no longer...
Publishing
Alison Uttley
After years of dissatisfaction at the small price she was paid for her books, AU
was staggered in March 1942 at receiving a royalty cheque from Faber
for £297.
qtd. in
Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph, 1986.
181
A year later her royalty...
Publishing
Anne Ridler
AR
's first volume published with Faber & Faber
benefited from the patronage of her former bosses there. T. S. Eliot
recommended its publication,
Ridler, Anne. “Working for T.S. Eliot: A Personal Reminiscence”. Poetry Review, Vol.
73
, No. 1, 1983, pp. 46-9.
49
and the first edition appeared on expensive hand-made paper, which...
Publishing
Elizabeth Ham
It appeared in a version which is only about half as long as the original. Eric Gillett
, the editor, compressed the book by fifty thousand words, partly because of wartime paper shortage, but partly...
Publishing
Alison Uttley
AU
kept publishing well into her seventies. A book of essays, Plowmen's Clocks, 1952, was followed by Here's a New Day in October 1956, another collection of reminiscent essays, twelve in number. About a...
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, 1992.
380
Drabble, Margaret, and Jenny Stringer, editors. The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press, 1996.
183
Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press, 1996.
217
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. Rev. and extended ed., Harcourt, Brace, 1969.
90-1
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. Farewell the Trumpets. Faber and Faber, 1978.
Morris, Jan. Heaven’s Command. Faber and Faber, 1973.
Morris, Jan. Manhattan ’45. Faber and Faber, 1987.
Morris, Jan. Oxford. Faber and Faber, 1965.
Morris, Jan. Pax Britannica. Faber and Faber, 1968.
Morris, Jan. Sultan in Oman. Faber and Faber, 1957.
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.