Cresset Press

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Marghanita Laski
The year after she graduated from Somerville College, ML married publisher John Eldred Howard (who later founded the Cresset Press ).
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Friends, Associates Margaret Kennedy
Other women writers with whom MK established friendships included Lettice Cooper , Phyllis Bentley (who had also been at Cheltenham ), Marghanita Laski , Elizabeth Jenkins , and Rose Macaulay . These authors supported and...
Publishing Marghanita Laski
ML published through her husband 's Cresset Press her first novel, Love on the Supertax, a fantastical comedy whose title invokes Walter Greenwood 's Love on the Dole, 1933.
Laski, Marghanita, and W. Stein. Love on the Supertax. Cresset Press, Nov. 1944.
prelims
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Publishing Frances Cornford
Frances Cornford published, with Cresset Press , the volume Travelling Home, which her son Christopher illustrated.
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Publishing Frances Cornford
Two editions of this book were printed: one by Cresset Press in London and a hand-printed edition, limited to 150 copies, by St Nicholas Press in Cambridge.
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Cornford, Frances, and Christopher Cornford. On a Calm Shore. Saint Nicolas Press, 1960.
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Her son Christopher illustrated the book.
Cornford, Frances, and Christopher Cornford. On a Calm Shore. Saint Nicolas Press, 1960.
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Publishing Elizabeth Taylor
In 1942 to July 1943 she was working on (and completed) a novel called Never and Always, set in a seaside town, in which the central female character, Emily Hemingway, in her early thirties...
Publishing Dorothy Richardson
In September 1934, she met S. S. Koteliansky , known as Kot to such friends and associates as Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry , D. H. Lawrence , and Virginia and Leonard Woolf ...
Publishing Dorothy Richardson
After reading volume twelve (Dimple Hill) in 1937, Richard Church was enthusiastic (he liked the novel better than Clear Horizon) and prepared to go ahead with publishing the collection. However, his plan...
Publishing Ruth Pitter
RP issued, through the Cresset Press (which now became her regular publisher) a poetry volume of grotesques or babouineries entitled A Mad Lady's Garland.
Russell, Arthur et al. “Faithful to Delight: A Portrait Sketch”. Ruth Pitter: Homage to a Poet, edited by Arthur Russell, Rapp and Whiting, 1969, pp. 19-40.
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Textual Production Margaret Kennedy
MK 's study of the craft of fiction writing, The Outlaws on Parnassus, was published by Marghanita Laski 's husband, John Howard , of the Cresset Press .
Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann, 1983.
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Textual Production Pat Arrowsmith
Jericho, PA 's first published novel, appeared from the Cresset Press .
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Textual Production Celia Fiennes
The first modern text of CF 's travel writings was edited by Christopher Morris for the Cresset Press , London, in 1947.
Fiennes, Celia. “Editorial Note and Introduction”. The Illustrated Journeys of Celia Fiennes, edited by Christopher Morris, Macdonald; Webb and Bower, 1982, pp. 8-31.
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Timeline

1927: Cresset Press was founded in London by Dennis...

Writing climate item

1927

Cresset Press was founded in London by Dennis David Myer Cohen , who commissioned several then-unknown artists such as Blair Hughes-Stanton and Gertrude Hermes to work on his publications.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
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Mumby, Frank Arthur, and Ian Norrie. Mumby’s Publishing and Bookselling in the Twentieth Century. 6th ed., Bell and Hyman, 1982.
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Texts

Arrowsmith, Pat. Jericho. Cresset Press, 1965.
Batho, Edith C., and Bonamy Dobree. The Victorians and After: 1830-1914. Cresset Press, 1962.
Carswell, John. The South Sea Bubble. Cresset Press, 1960.
Cornford, Frances. Collected Poems. Cresset Press, 1954.
Cornford, Frances, and Christopher Cornford. Travelling Home. Cresset Press, 1948.
Fiennes, Celia, and George Macaulay Trevelyan. The Journeys of Celia Fiennes. Editor Morris, Christopher, Cresset Press, 1947.
Gantz, Ida. The Pastel Portrait. Cresset Press, 1963.
Kennedy, Margaret. The Outlaws on Parnassus. Cresset Press, 1958.
Laski, Marghanita, and Georgina Battiscombe, editors. A Chaplet for Charlotte Yonge. Cresset Press, 1965.
Laski, Marghanita. Ecstasy: A Study of Some Secular and Religious Experiences. Cresset Press, 1961.
Laski, Marghanita. Little Boy Lost. Cresset Press.
Laski, Marghanita, and W. Stein. Love on the Supertax. Cresset Press.
Laski, Marghanita. The Offshore Island. Cresset Press, 1959.
Laski, Marghanita. The Victorian Chaise-Longue. Cresset Press, 1953.
Laski, Marghanita. The Village. Cresset Press, 1952.
Laski, Marghanita. Tory Heaven. Cresset Press, 1948.
Levertov, Denise. The Double Image. Cresset Press, 1946.
Pitter, Ruth. A Mad Lady’s Garland. Cresset Press, 1934.
Pitter, Ruth. A Trophy of Arms. Cresset Press, 1936.
Pitter, Ruth. On Cats. Cresset Press, 1947.
Pitter, Ruth. Still by Choice. Cresset Press, 1966.
Pitter, Ruth. The Ermine. Cresset Press, 1953.
Pitter, Ruth. The Rude Potato. Cresset Press, 1941.
Pitter, Ruth. Urania. Cresset Press, 1950.
Robertson, E. Arnot. The Spanish Town Papers. Cresset Press, 1959.