Correspondence concerning A word child / by Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) (Chatto & Windus)

CW 550/1

1975

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 A word child / by Jean Iris Murdoch (1975) (ISBN 0701120924) b) preparation to publish Henry and Cato / by Murdoch (1976) and c) rights in these and other works by Murdoch. Includes: 16 letters and 11 pcs from Murdoch; 5 letters from Viking Press, publishers of the book in the United States of America; 5 from Penguin Books concerning rights in paperback; 2 from New Fiction Society concerning book club rights; dust jackets; and other papers.Holographs, typescripts and carbon typescripts.From Chatto & Windus correspondence 1975-1977: Iris Murdoch.

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