Correspondence concerning The sacred and profane love machine / by Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) (Chatto & Windus)

CW 549/7

1974

The firm that became Chatto & Windus in 1873 originated in the 1850s from the bookselling business of John Camden Hotten. On Hotten’s death, his employee Andrew Chatto acquired the business with a sleeping partner, W.E. Windus. In 1946 it acquired The Hogarth Press, which had been established in 1917 by Virginia and Leonard Woolf . In 1969 Chatto & Windus merged with Jonathan Cape, with all three imprints being retained, as was The Bodley Head when it joined the firm in 1973. In 1987 the group was purchased by Random House. English and American literature were the strengths of the list. The firm published many celebrated authors – Robert Louis Stevenson, Marcel Proust, Laurie Lee, Christopher Isherwood, Aldous Huxley, Sigmund Freud and Iris Murdoch among them. Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate, was editorial director in the 1960s. Source: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.co.uk/publishers/vintage/chatto-windus/

Contents: correspondence concerning a) publication of The sacred and profane love machine / by Jean Iris Murdoch (1974) (ISBN 0701120150), b) preparation to publish A word child / by Murdoch (1975) and c) rights in these and other works by Murdoch. Includes: 21 letters and 15 pcs from Murdoch; 4 letters and a telegram from Viking Press, publishers of the books in the United States of America; 3 from W. & G. Foyle concerning their book club edition of The sacred and profane love machine; 2 from T.A. Cutbill & Partners, organisers of the Whitbread Prize (awarded to The sacred and profane love machine); 2 from Christopher Cornford who designs the dust jacket of A word child; 2 from Book Club Associates concerning rights in A world child; 3 letters and 2 pcs from the New Fiction Society concerning their edition of The nice and the good / by Murdoch; and others.Holographs, typescripts and carbon typescripts.From Chatto & Windus correspondence 1971-1974: Iris Murdoch.

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