Eyre and Spottiswoode

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Employer Graham Greene
GG also worked as director for two different London publishing houses: for Eyre and Spottiswoode from 1944 (when he resigned from the secret service) to 1948 and for Bodley Head for ten years beginning in...
Publishing Ivy Compton-Burnett
In 1946 Graham Greene , who worked for the publisher Eyre and Spottiswoode , tried to arrange for his employers to reissue the seven-year-old A Family and a Fortune as well as ICB 's three...
Publishing Antonia White
It then appeared as the first book issued by the new firm of Desmond Harmsworth , whose founder and owner was the lover of AW 's friend Wyn Henderson . Two thousand copies were printed...
Reception Antonia White
AW had used Sylvaine's name for a fictional actress flourishing some years before the real June Sylvaine was born. Her publisher, Eyre and Spottiswoode , played safe by withdrawing copies of the book. The case...

Timeline

Around 1812: The publishing firm of Eyre and Spottiswoode...

Writing climate item

Around 1812

The publishing firm of Eyre and Spottiswoode was established in London; it originated from the publishing business begun by William Strahan some fifty years earlier.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 133

Texts

Book of Common Prayer. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1972.
Law Reports: Statutes. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1866.
Bermant, Chaim. The Cousinhood: The Anglo-Jewish Gentry. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1971.
Bryher,. Amy Lowell: A Critical Appreciation. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1918.
Gershon, Karen. “The Relentless Year”. New Poets, 1959, edited by Edwin Muir, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1959.
Lewis, Wyndham. Blasting and Bombardiering. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1937.
Nightingale, Florence. “Hospital Statistics”. Programme of the Fourth Session of the International Statistical Congress, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1860, pp. 63-71.
Nightingale, Florence. Suggestions on a System of Nursing for Hospitals in India. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1865.
Rubens, Bernice. Madame Sousatzka. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1962.
Rubens, Bernice. Mate in Three. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1966.
Rubens, Bernice. Set on Edge. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1960.
Rubens, Bernice. Sunday Best. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1971.
Rubens, Bernice. The Elected Member. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1969.
Short, Ernest. Theatrical Cavalcade. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1942.
St John-Stevas, Norman. Walter Bagehot: A Study of His Life and Thought Together With a Selection From His Political Writings. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1959.
Templeton, Edith. Living on Yesterday. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1951.
Templeton, Edith. Summer in the Country. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1950.
Templeton, Edith. The Island of Desire. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1952.
Templeton, Edith. The Surprise of Cremona. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1954.
Templeton, Edith. This Charming Pastime. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1955.
White, Antonia. Beyond the Glass. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1954.
White, Antonia. The Lost Traveller. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1950.
White, Antonia. The Sugar House. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1952.