Her first job after getting her BA was in publishing: as an editor, foreign languages editor, publicity director, and jack of all trades with Weidenfeld and Nicolson
.
qtd. in
Wroe, Nicholas. “The history woman”. The Guardian, 24 Aug. 2002, pp. 16-19.
18
She got the job through personal...
Friends, Associates
Antonia Fraser
George Weidenfeld
, an early publisher of her work, was her oldest adult friend.
Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada, 2010.
25
Publishing
Antonia Fraser
She had floated the idea of writing a study of women in the seventeenth century in September 1979, and publishers George Weidenfeld
and Bob Gottlieb
both seem[ed] keen.
Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada, 2010.
108-9
She dedicated it to her...
Reception
Olivia Manning
She enjoyed the fact that alphabetical order placed her next in the queue of award-winners to the tv comics Morecambe and Wise. Lord Weidenfeld
, who had recently become her publisher, gave a large party...
Timeline
1949: George Weidenfeld and Nigel Nicolson founded...
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
338
Mumby, Frank Arthur, and Ian Norrie. Mumby’s Publishing and Bookselling in the Twentieth Century. 6th ed., Bell and Hyman, 1982.
128
1957: A new recruit at publishing firm Weidenfeld...
Writing climate item
1957
A new recruit at publishing firm Weidenfeld and Nicolson
was told that this was an enterprise run by George Weidenfeld
, not by committee, and that its mission was to open a window to Europe...