Invited by Richard de la Mare
in February 1934 to write a successor to The Country Child, AU
first planned a fictional treatment to be called High Meadows (published in 1938), then began in...
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P. D. James
She used her maiden name for this and all her subsequent publications, as James was the essential me and my family name from the beginning.
DB
had tried to find a publisher for Nightwood while she was living in New York, but the manuscript was turned down repeatedly. Emily Coleman
suggested revisions, which Barnes carried out. Coleman also exploited literary...
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George Orwell
GO
completed his well-known satirical fable, Animal Farm, which was rejected for publication by Gollancz
, Cape
, Collins
, and Faber
(in the person of T. S. Eliot
).
Meyers, Jeffrey. A Reader’s Guide to George Orwell. Littlefield, Adams, 1977.
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“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Philip Larkin
PL
's second novel, A Girl in Winter, appeared, having been placed by his agent, A. P. Watt
, with Faber and Faber
. It sold 5,000 copies in the year of its publication...
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Alison Uttley
The Farm on the Hill brought AU
a thirty-pound advance from Faber
. At a price of seven and sixpence, it sold 1,300 copies by the autumn.
Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph, 1986.
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Mary Butts
This book, originally titled Alexander the Great, was completed in 1931, but MB
had some difficulty getting it published. She sent her manuscript to T. S. Eliot
at Faber and Faber
, but he...
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George Orwell
He published the book with Gollancz
after it was rejected by Cape
and Faber
. He chose his pseudonym from a list of names including P. S. Burton, Kenneth Miles, and H. Leis Allways. He...
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Philip Larkin
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.
7
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Alison Uttley
At the end of that year, Faber
rejected The Secret Spring, as did another publisher in February 1933. AU
then wrote off that project, since she had plenty more on hand.
Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph, 1986.
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When Cuckoo...
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Djuna Barnes
T. S. Eliot
was once again instrumental in editing her manuscript and recommending it for publication with Faber and Faber
. However, he wrote a blurb for the play which suggested frustration at DB
's...
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Philip Larkin
The book went through many stages and revisions before publication: the first draft had been finished in February 1944.
Motion, Andrew. Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life. Faber and Faber, 1993.
154
A related draft and stories survive, but no complete manuscript. Larkin wrote that he was...
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Djuna Barnes
Most of DB
's later publications were collections of previously published works. Her Selected Works, which included Spillway (a collection of short stories), The Antiphon, and Nightwood, were published in the USA...
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Frances Cornford
In order that her son should be the illustrator of this volume, Cornford rejected an offer from Faber and Faber
to publish her poems.
Dowson, Jane et al. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by Jane Dowson and Jane Dowson, Enitharmon Press, 1996, p. xiii - xxv.
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Texts
Eliot, T. S. Sweeney Agonistes. Faber and Faber.
Eliot, T. S. The Cocktail Party. Faber and Faber, 1950.
Eliot, T. S. The Confidential Clerk. Faber and Faber, 1954.
Eliot, T. S. The Elder Statesman. Faber and Faber, 1959.
Eliot, T. S. The Family Reunion. Faber and Faber, 1939.
Eliot, T. S. The Idea of a Christian Society. Faber and Faber.
Eliot, T. S. The Letters of T.S. Eliot. Editor Eliot, Valerie, Faber and Faber, 1988.
Eliot, T. S. The Waste Land Drafts. Editor Eliot, Valerie, Faber and Faber, 1971.
Ellmann, Richard. Yeats: The Man and the Masks. Faber and Faber, 1961.
Empson, William. The Gathering Storm. Faber and Faber, 1940.
Farjeon, Eleanor, and Clare Leighton. Perkin the Pedlar. Faber and Faber, 1932.
Figes, Eva. B. Faber and Faber, 1972.
Figes, Eva. Little Eden. Faber and Faber, 1978.
Ham, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. Elizabeth Ham, by Herself, 1783-1820, edited by Eric Gillett, Faber and Faber, 1945, pp. 5-12.
Goodman, Lizbeth, editor. Mythic Women/Real Women. Faber and Faber, 2000.
Graves, Robert von Ranke. The White Goddess. Faber and Faber, 1948.
Greer, Germaine, editor. 101 Poems by 101 Women. Faber and Faber, 2001.
Ham, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Ham, by Herself, 1783-1820. Editor Gillett, Eric, Faber and Faber, 1945.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Newnham: An Informal Biography. Faber and Faber, 1936.
Hughes, Ted, and Sylvia Plath. “Introduction”. Collected Poems, Faber and Faber, pp. 13-17.
Hughes, Ted. Letters of Ted Hughes. Editor Reid, Christopher, Faber and Faber, 2007.
Huxley, Elspeth. Peter Scott: Painter and Naturalist. Faber and Faber, 1993.
Huxley, Elspeth, and Margery Perham. Race and Politics in Kenya. Faber and Faber, 1944.
Iremonger, Lucille. The Ghosts of Versailles. Faber and Faber, 1957.
James, P. D. A Certain Justice. Faber and Faber, 1997.
