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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...
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 James Joyce
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.
105
Publishing Philip Larkin
PL 's second novel, A Girl in Winter, appeared, having been placed by his agent, A. P. Watt , with Faber and Faber . It sold 5,000 copies in the year of its publication...
Publishing Philip Larkin
PL 's The Whitsun Weddings, his first poetry publication with Faber and Faber , resulted from an invitation from Charles Monteith of that company, issued years earlier after he had read Church Going in The Spectator.
Larkin, Philip. Collected Poems. Editor Thwaite, Anthony, Faber and Faber; the Marvell Press.
77
Brennan, Maeve. The Philip Larkin I Knew. Manchester University Press.
7
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Publishing Philip Larkin
The book went through many stages and revisions before publication: the first draft had been finished in February 1944.
Motion, Andrew. Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life. Faber and Faber.
154
A related draft and stories survive, but no complete manuscript. Larkin wrote that he was...
Publishing Philip Larkin
PL had already begun to produce some of the poems that were later to make him known (including Wedding Wind, written in 1946). Towards the end of 1947 he typed up for Faber and Faber
Anthologization Bryony Lavery
BL 's More Light, a play for children of secondary-school age commissioned by the Education Department of the Royal National Theatre , was published by Faber and Faber in New Connections: New Plays for Young People.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Publishing Deborah Levy
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...
Literary responses Cecily Mackworth
T. S. Eliot , an early and appreciative reader of this book, invited the author to meet him over tea at his Faber and Faber office in Russell Square. Mackworth, however, felt intimidated by...
Textual Production Hope Mirrlees
HM published A Fly in Amber: Being an Extravagant Biography of the Romantic Antiquary Sir Robert Bruce Cotton. It was published through Faber and Faber , who obtained it through HM 's old friend T. S. Eliot .
Henig, Suzanne. “Queen of Lud: Hope Mirrlees”. Virginia Woolf Quarterly, Vol.
1
, No. 1, pp. 8-27.
8
Textual Production Jan Morris
JM embarked on a long and fruitful publishing relationship with Faber and Faber , with a book entitled Coast to Coast, about the USA.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
2832 (8 June 1956): 345
Publishing Iris Murdoch
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.
170
Textual Production Kathleen Nott
KN published with Faber and Faber her fourth and final novel, An Elderly Retired Man, which is narrated in the first person by its stunningly self-centred protagonist.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
3214 (4 October 1963): 781
Literary responses Edna O'Brien
Lee Brackstone, who bought the manuscript of this book for Faber and Faber , alerted its potential readership, pre-publication, to expect the masterpiece of O'Brien's career, a book which reminds us why she is...

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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.
Larkin, Philip. Required Writing: miscellaneous pieces, 1955-1982. Faber and Faber, 1983.