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
Publishing
T. S. Eliot
Its date—the first celebration during World War Two of the Christian festival of resurrection—was significant, and was also a factor in the poem's impact. Reprinted as a separate publication by Faber and Faber
in May...
Publishing
Alison Uttley
After many rejections, AU
began a series involving the scapegrace Tim Rabbit with The Adventures of No Ordinary Rabbit, published by Faber
in November 1937, with illustrations by Alec Buckels
. Years later, a...
Publishing
Ann Jellicoe
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...
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
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.
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]...