Philippa Scott found it such fun to have Elspeth on hand researching and writing. Peter Scott had left 72 volumes of diaries, and her publisher, Faber and Faber
, paid £5,000 for two years' research...
Material Conditions of Writing
T. S. Eliot
TSE
's dramatic monologue Journey of the Magi was published by Faber and Gwyer
a month after his baptism as an Anglican.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
45
Gallup, Donald Clifford. T.S. Eliot: A Bibliography. Rev. and extended ed., Harcourt, Brace, 1969.
34
Occupation
Jo Shapcott
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...
Performance of text
T. S. Eliot
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
.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
380
Drabble, Margaret, and Jenny Stringer, editors. The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press, 1996.
183
Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press, 1996.
217
Performance of text
T. S. Eliot
TSE
's drama The Confidential Clerk was first performed at the EdinburghFestival
, and it was published by Faber and Faber
the next year.
Gallup, Donald Clifford. T.S. Eliot: A Bibliography. Rev. and extended ed., Harcourt, Brace, 1969.
90-1
Publishing
Lucy Boston
LB
was already a passionate painter when she turned to writing, infused with enthusiasm by the house she had bought. The manor gave her the inspiration for her books, and she has said that All...
Publishing
Seamus Heaney
A paperback from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
appeared in 1985. SH
issued a revised edition of this poem ten years later through Faber and Faber
as Sweeney's Flight. In this edition some passages appear...
Publishing
Iris Murdoch
The first novel which IM
offered to a publisher was read by T. S. Eliot
for Faber and Faber
; he rejected it, perhaps on grounds of the wartime paper shortage.
Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins, 2002.
170
Publishing
W. H. Auden
WHA
published with Random House
in New York a book of criticism entitled The Enchafèd Flood; or, the Romantic Iconography of the Sea; it appeared from Faber
in London the following year.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Publishing
Carol Ann Duffy
Faber and Faber
's Grimm Tales, 1996, brings together CAD
's versions with Supple's (often only slightly changed) performance scripts, with Melanie Still
's illustrations, and various kinds of information designed to assist new...
Publishing
Elspeth Huxley
They had begun planning such a book after meeting at a Colonial Conference in summer 1941, at Oxford
, where Perham was Reader in Colonial Administration. Lord Lugard
supplied an introduction.
Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins, 2002.
WHA
again published a critical book, The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays, with Random House
in New York the year before it appeared from Faber
in London.
Spears, Monroe K. The Poetry of W.H. Auden. The Disenchanted Island. Oxford University Press, 1968.
260
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Publishing
Harold Pinter
Faber
printed the two plays together this year; Samuel French
issued an edition of Celebration alone in 2002.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Publishing
Alison Uttley
A bomb on the London offices of Faber
destroyed (among other things) the typescript of AU
's play Little Grey Rabbit to the Rescue, which had been rejected for the stage by the Theatre Royal, Windsor
Publishing
W. H. Auden
While an undergraduate at Oxford (from October 1925) he discovered T. S. Eliot
, and was for a while obsessively modernist, as he had previously been traditional in the style of Thomas Hardy
. He...
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Texts
Boston, Lucy, and Peter Boston. The Children of Green Knowe. Faber and Faber, 1954.
Boston, Lucy. The Horned Man. Faber and Faber, 1970.
Boston, Lucy, and Peter Boston. The Sea Egg. Faber and Faber, 1967.
Boston, Lucy. Yew Hall. Faber and Faber, 1954.
Bottome, Phyllis. Alfred Adler, Apostle of Freedom. Faber and Faber, 1939.
Bottome, Phyllis. London Pride. Faber and Faber, 1941.
Bottome, Phyllis. Not in Our Stars. Faber and Faber, 1955.
Bottome, Phyllis. Search for a Soul. Faber and Faber, 1947.
Bottome, Phyllis. The Challenge. Faber and Faber, 1952.
Bottome, Phyllis. The Goal. Faber and Faber, 1962.
Bottome, Phyllis. The Life Line. Faber and Faber, 1946.
Bottome, Phyllis. The Mortal Storm. Faber and Faber, 1937.
Bottome, Phyllis. Within the Cup. Faber and Faber, 1943.
Brophy, Brigid. Mozart the Dramatist. Faber and Faber, 1964.
Butler, Arthur Stanley George. Portrait of Josephine Butler. Faber and Faber, 1954.
Carter, Angela, and Philip Sutton. Black Venus’s Tale. Faber and Faber, 1980.
Cave, Roderick. The Private Press. Faber and Faber, 1971.
Chapman, Ronald. The Laurel and the Thorn: A Study of G.F. Watts. Faber and Faber, 1945.
Clough, David et al. Plays Introduction: Plays by New Writers. Faber and Faber, 1984.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber, 1968.
Cope, Wendy. If I Don’t Know. Faber and Faber, 2001.
Cope, Wendy. Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis. Faber and Faber, 1986.
Cope, Wendy. Serious Concerns. Faber and Faber, 1992.
Cope, Wendy, and Nicholas Garland. The River Girl. Faber and Faber, 1991.
Poems from the Russian. Translators Cornford, Frances and Esther Polianowsky Salaman, Faber and Faber, 1943.
