T. Fisher Unwin
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T. Fisher Unwin was the London publishing house founded by Thomas Fisher Unwin, husband of British Liberal politician Jane Cobden in 1882.Template:R
Unwin fashioned a "highly competitive company with a reputation for discovering and marketing promising new authors".[1] The company published fiction series such as the Pseudonym Library and the Overseas Library through which promising new authors such as Joseph Conrad, John Galsworthy and W. Somerset Maugham could be "profitably marketed to a growing middle-class reading public"[1] in the 1890s. In the years 1895-1898 Unwin published Joseph Conrad’s first novel Almayer’s Folly and his An Outcast of the Islands and Tales of Unrest; in 1897 it published Maugham's first novel Liza of Lambeth.
The company's list also included works by Henrik Ibsen,[2] Friedrich Nietzsche,[3] H. G. Wells, Olive Schreiner,[4] W. B. Yeats, Ford Madox Ford, Sigmund Freud, Ouida and E. Nesbit.
T. Fisher Unwin employed a "skilful team"[5] including Edward Garnett as reader (who recommended Almayer’s Folly for publication) and David Rice as chief salesman.
During much of the company's first two decades T. Fisher Unwin's office was located at Paternoster Square, London[6] and in 1905 it relocated to 1 Adelphi Square, London (with a branch at Inselstrasse 20, Leipzig).[7]
Thomas Fisher Unwin's latterly more famous nephew Stanley Unwin started his career by working in his uncle's firm. In 1914 Stanley Unwin purchased a controlling interest in the firm George Allen and Sons, and established George Allen and Unwin, later to become Allen and Unwin.[8]
Unwin retired to his home in Sussex in 1926, following which his publishing house merged with Ernest Benn Limited.Template:R
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References
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- ↑ a b c d Graham Law, "Unwin, T. Fisher", The Oxford Companion to the Book, Oxford University Press, 2010 (online edition). Retrieved 26 December 2023.
- ↑ Ibsen T. Fisher Unwin, worldcat.org. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
- ↑ Nietzsche T. Fisher Unwin, worldcat.org. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
- ↑ Olive Schreiner T. Fisher Unwin, worldcat.org. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
- ↑ Owen Knowles and Gene M. Moore, eds., Unwin, "T (Thomas) Fisher", Oxford Reader’s Companion To Conrad, 2000; 2011 (online edition). Retrieved 26 December 2023.
- ↑ Rome From The Earliest Times To The End Of The Republic, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1885, worldcat.org. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
- ↑ J. B. Purvis, Through Uganda to Mount Elgon, London and Leipzig: T. Fisher Unwin, 1909, title page. Retrieved 27 December 2023.
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- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p John Bremer Purvis, Through Uganda to Mount Elgon, London and Leipzig: T. Fisher Unwin, 1909, p. i ff. Retrieved 27 December 2023.
- ↑ Jesse Macy, Party Organization And Machinery, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1905. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
- ↑ a b Pseudonym Library / Autonym Library, Delaware Art Museum, delart.org. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
- ↑ Builders of Greater Britain, publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
- ↑ a b c d Vaughan Cornish, Waves of the Sea, and Other Water Waves. With 50 Photographs Taken by the Author, London: T. Fisher, 1910, publisher's advertisement. Retrieved 2 January 2024.
- ↑ S. C. Johnson, Chats on Military Curios, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1915 (The Chats Series), publisher's advertisement. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
- ↑ Every Irishman's Library, seriesofseries.com. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
- ↑ Mermaid Series (Vizetelly & Co.; T. Fisher Unwin; Charles Scribner's Sons; etc.) - Book Series List, publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
- ↑ The Story of Nations (T. Fisher Unwin/G. P. Putnam's Sons) - Book Series List, publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
- ↑ Cabinet Library, seriesofseries.com. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
- ↑ Unwin's Colonial Library, publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
- ↑ Mrs. Campbell Praed, The Insane Root : A Romance of a Strange Country, London: T. Fisher, Unwin, preliminary pages. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
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Further reading
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- Julie F. Codell, "T. Fisher Unwin", in: Patricia J. Anderson and Jonathan Rose, eds., British Literary Publishing Houses, 1820-1880, Detroit and London: Gale Research Inc., 1991 (Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 106), pp. 304-311
- Frederick Nesta, "The Series as Commodity: Marketing T. Fisher Unwin’s Pseudonym and Autonym Libraries", in: John Spiers, ed., The Culture of the Publisher’s Series, Volume One, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, pp. 171–187
- Philip Unwin, The Publishing Unwins, London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1972