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.
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.
xv
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
, 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...
Reception
P. D. James
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...
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.
228-9
Textual Production
Sylvia Beach
Though the essays were solicited and overseen by Joyce
, SB
did much of the editorial work and designed the cover.
Beach, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. Harcourt, Brace.
SD
's Morning Glory was staged at Watford Palace Theatre
, directed by Laurence Till
(who had attended her Neaptide seven times, three of them in one week). It was printed the same year by...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Jennings
She edited a selection of Christina Rossetti
's poetry for Faber and Faber
in 1970, with an introduction praising Rossetti's many felicities . . . the perfection of her lyric ear . . . [her]...
Textual Production
Samuel Beckett
It was given in a double bill with the earlier piece Endgame, with Jack McGowran or MacGowran
as its protagonist, Clov.
Tóibín, Colm. “My Darlings”. London Review of Books, pp. 3-8.
6
These two Irish actors, each important for Becket's work, each apparently sought...
Textual Production
Anne Devlin
AD
published with Faber and Faber
a volume of short stories, The Way-Paver.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
245
Devlin, Anne. The Way-Paver. Faber and Faber.
prelims
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, p. 240 pp.
After seventeen years of writing and revising, JJ
's Finnegans Wake was published in its entirety in London by Faber and Faber
and in New York by Viking Press
.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press.
Parker, Alan. James Joyce: A Bibliography of His Writings, Critical Material, and Miscellanea. F. W. Faxon.
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Texts
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. “Ann Jellicoe Talks to Sue Todd”. The Knack and The Sport of My Mad Mother, Faber and Faber, 1985, pp. 9-23.
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.
Keegan, Claire. Foster. Faber and Faber, 2010.
La Tourette, Aileen. “Passing”. Mae West Is Dead: Recent Lesbian and Gay Fiction, edited by Adam Mars-Jones, Faber and Faber, 1983, pp. 178-81.
Larkin, Philip. A Girl in Winter. Faber and Faber, 1947.
Larkin, Philip. All What Jazz: a record diary 1961-68. Faber and Faber, 1970.
Larkin, Philip. High Windows. Faber and Faber, 1974.
