Faber and Faber

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...

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...

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.JOF got the idea for this novel...

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...

The stories were I Stand Here Ironing, Hey Sailor, What Ship?, O Yes, and the title story. Lippincott , who first published the volume, lost money on it. It was published in...

The Farm on the Hill brought AU a thirty-pound advance from Faber . At a price of seven and sixpence, it sold 1,300 copies by the autumn.

GO completed his well-known satirical fable, Animal Farm, which was rejected for publication by Gollancz , Cape , Collins , and Faber (in the person of T. S. Eliot ).

At the end of that year, Faber rejected The Secret Spring, as did another publisher in February 1933. AU then wrote off that project, since she had plenty more on hand. When Cuckoo...

He published the book with Gollancz after it was rejected by Cape and Faber . He chose his pseudonym from a list of names including P. S. Burton, Kenneth Miles, and H. Leis Allways. He...

AR 's first volume published with Faber & Faber benefited from the patronage of her former bosses there. T. S. Eliot recommended its publication, and the first edition appeared on expensive hand-made paper, which...

She meant this book to be a saga of English working-class life in the twentieth century, based on her own family, but found she was writing about the horrors of factory farming. Writing at a...

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...

TSE 's earliest verse play, the historical drama Murder in the Cathedral, had its first performance, in the chapter-house of Canterbury Cathedral. It was published the next year by Faber and Faber .

TSE 's drama The Confidential Clerk was first performed at the EdinburghFestival , and it was published by Faber and Faber the next year.

JS began teaching English at Rolle College in Exmouth (one of the three main campuses of the University of Plymouth , which, however, is due to be relocated in a movement towards centralization). She then...