Faber and Faber

Philippa Scott found it such fun to have Elspeth on hand researching and writing. Peter Scott had left 72 volumes of diaries, and her publisher, Faber and Faber , paid £5,000 for two years' research...

TSE 's dramatic monologue Journey of the Magi was published by Faber and Gwyer a month after his baptism as an Anglican.

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...

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 .

TSE 's drama The Confidential Clerk was first performed at the EdinburghFestival , and it was published by Faber and Faber the next year.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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. A year later her royalty...

AR 's first volume published with Faber & Faber benefited from the patronage of her former bosses there. T. S. Eliot recommended its publication, and the first edition appeared on expensive hand-made paper, which...

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...

A paperback from Farrar, Straus and Giroux appeared in 1985. SH issued a revised edition of this poem ten years later through Faber and Faber as Sweeney's Flight. In this edition some passages appear...

The first novel which IM offered to a publisher was read by T. S. Eliot for Faber and Faber ; he rejected it, perhaps on grounds of the wartime paper shortage.

LB was already a passionate painter when she turned to writing, infused with enthusiasm by the house she had bought. The manor gave her the inspiration for her books, and she has said that All...