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, 2003.
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Brennan, Maeve. The Philip Larkin I Knew. Manchester University Press, 2002.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Publishing
Julia O'Faolain
This novel met with the threat of a libel action (about which Charles Monteith
of Faber and Faber
was stoical) from a woman whom JOF
described in hyperbolic terms as having a termite-infested bed. O'Faolain...
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...
