Invited by Richard de la Mare
in February 1934 to write a successor to The Country Child, AU
first planned a fictional treatment to be called High Meadows (published in 1938), then began in...
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.
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.
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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
Anne Ridler
Faber and Faber
brought out AR
's New and Selected Poems, her first retrospective selection published in Britain.
In 2019 The Victim was re-issued by Faber
as a stand-alone short story.
Textual Production
Djuna Barnes
Nightwood was published in New York in March 1937 by Harcourt Brace
, with an introduction by Eliot
praising its great achievement of a style, the beauty of phrasing, the brilliance of wit and characterization...
Textual Production
Wendy Cope
She has followed that with a collection for children, The Orchard Book of Funny Poems (illustrated by Amanda Vesey
), 1993, and with three anthologies published by Faber and Faber
:The Funny Side: 101...
Textual Production
Alison Uttley
But her publisher, Faber
, lost money on this book.
Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph, 1986.
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Textual Production
Anne Ridler
She also sat on the committee which, under Alice Mary Smyth (later Hadfield)
, was at work compiling the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
Ridler, Anne. Memoirs. The Perpetua Press, 2004, p. 240 pp.