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.
Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins, 2002.
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Publishing
W. H. Auden
WHA
published with Random House
in New York a book of criticism entitled The Enchafèd Flood; or, the Romantic Iconography of the Sea; it appeared from Faber
in London the following year.
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Publishing
Carol Ann Duffy
Faber and Faber
's Grimm Tales, 1996, brings together CAD
's versions with Supple's (often only slightly changed) performance scripts, with Melanie Still
's illustrations, and various kinds of information designed to assist new...
Publishing
Elspeth Huxley
They had begun planning such a book after meeting at a Colonial Conference in summer 1941, at Oxford
, where Perham was Reader in Colonial Administration. Lord Lugard
supplied an introduction.
Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins, 2002.
She received an impressive number of honours from various universities. She had an Honorary DLitt from the Universities of Buckingham (1992), London (1993), Hertfordshire (1994), Glasgow (1995), Durham (1998), and Portsmouth (1999). She also had...
Reception
Maggie Gee
Reviews were very good, and the Times drew attention to the novel by publishing an extended excerpt.
Gee, Maggie. “Bottom drawer”. Mslexia, Vol.
15
, 2002, p. 42.
42
It was indeed long-listed for the Booker, and Faber and Faber
asked to see her next book....
Reception
Seamus Heaney
These poems attracted the attention of Charles Monteith
, a director of the publishing firm of Faber and Faber
, who was also born in Northern Ireland. The result was the offer of a book...
Residence
Djuna Barnes
At the news that Faber and Faber
had agreed to publish Nightwood, DB
left New York again for Europe, initially to Paris.
Herring, Phillip. Djuna: The Life and Work of Djuna Barnes. Penguin, 1995.
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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...
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, 1998.
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
Winsome Pinnock
WP
published with Faber
a play entitled The Rebirth of Robert Samuels.
Encouraged by the success of The Country Child, AU
published with Faber
(to whom that same success made her welcome) Moonshine and Magic, a book of stories for children.
Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph, 1986.
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Textual Production
W. H. Auden
An earlier, private edition of Poems was hand printed by Stephen Spender
in 1928, in an edition of probably fewer than 45 copies.
Spears, Monroe K. The Poetry of W.H. Auden. The Disenchanted Island. Oxford University Press, 1968.
4
A second edition appeared in 1932, and two years later a...
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, 1984.
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Texts
James, P. D. A Mind to Murder. Faber and Faber, 1963.
James, P. D. A Taste for Death. Faber and Faber, 1986.
James, P. D. An Unsuitable Job for a Woman. Faber and Faber, 1972.
James, P. D. Cover Her Face. Faber and Faber, 1962.
James, P. D. Death of an Expert Witness. Faber and Faber, 1977.
James, P. D. Devices and Desires. Faber and Faber, 1989.
James, P. D. Innocent Blood. Faber and Faber, 1980.
James, P. D. Original Sin. Faber and Faber, 1994.
James, P. D. Shroud for a Nightingale. Faber and Faber, 1971.
James, P. D. The Black Tower. Faber and Faber, 1975.
James, P. D. The Children of Men. Faber and Faber, 1992.
James, P. D. The Private Patient. Faber and Faber, 2008.
James, P. D. The Skull beneath the Skin. Faber and Faber, 1982.
James, P. D. Time to Be in Earnest. Faber and Faber, 1999.
James, P. D. Unnatural Causes. Faber and Faber, 1967.
Jellicoe, Ann. 3 Jelliplays. Faber and Faber, 1975.
Jellicoe, Ann. “Ann Jellicoe Talks to Sue Todd”. The Knack and The Sport of My Mad Mother, Faber and Faber, 1985, pp. 9-23.
Jellicoe, Ann. “Preface”. Shelley; or, The Idealist, Faber and Faber, 1966, pp. 13-20.
Jellicoe, Ann. Shelley. Faber and Faber, 1966.
Jellicoe, Ann. The Giveaway. Faber and Faber, 1970.
Jellicoe, Ann. “The Knack”. The Knack and The Sport of My Mad Mother, Faber and Faber, 1985, pp. 25-98.
Jellicoe, Ann, and London Observer. “The Sport of My Mad Mother”. The Observer Plays, Faber and Faber, 1958.
Jellicoe, Ann. “The Sport of My Mad Mother”. The Knack and The Sport of My Mad Mother, Faber and Faber, 1985, pp. 99-168.
Johns, Derek. Ariel. A Literary Life of Jan Morris. Faber and Faber, 2016.
Joyce, James. Finnegans Wake. Faber and Faber, 1939.