Martin Secker

Harvill Secker is a British publishing company formed as Secker and Warburg in 1936 from a takeover of Martin Secker, which was in receivership, by Fredric Warburg and Roger Senhouse. The firm became renowned for its political stance,...

In this article: Secker and Warburg, George Orwell, Fredric Warburg, Communist Party, J.M. Coetzee, Victor Gollancz, Heinemann, and Random House

...retained as a subtitle. This projected Lahr edition failed to appear and the first English edition was eventually published by Martin Secker in September 1931 as The Man Who Died, a title never approved by the author. The work was illustrated...

In this article: The Escaped Cock, D. H. Lawrence, Earl Brewster, Black Sun Press, and London

...begun when writer was living at the D. H. Lawrence Ranch near Taos in U.S. state of New Mexico in 1924. It was first published by Martin Secker in 1926. The original working title of an early draft was "Quetzalcoatl", a reference to the...

In this article: The Plumed Serpent, Cambridge University Press, and D. H. Lawrence

Mornings in Mexico is a collection of travel essays by D. H. Lawrence, first published by Martin Secker in 1927. These brief works display Lawrence's gifts as a travel writer, catching the 'spirit of a place' in his own vivid manner.

In this article: D. H. Lawrence, Mornings in Mexico, Plumed Serpent, and Mexico

...in 1935. Later that same year, he and Roger Senhouse were to purchase the publishing firm of Martin Secker (that was in receivership) and renamed it as Secker and Warburg. The firm became renowned for its political stance, being both...

In this article: Fredric John Warburg, George Orwell, Secker and Warburg, Heinemann, Communism, World revolution, Westminster School, and Christ Church, Oxford

...first published in New York, USA in 1921 by Thomas Seltzer , with illustrations by Jan Juta. A British edition, published by Martin Secker, came out in April 1923. Sea and Sardinia (1921), edited by Mara Kalnins, Cambridge University...

In this article: Sardinia, D. H. Lawrence, Sea, The Dial, Cambridge University Press, Jan Juta, and Sea and Sardinia

...My England volume. This was published on 24 October 1922 by Seltzer in the USA. The first English edition was published by Martin Secker in 1924. England, My England and other stories (1922), edited by Bruce Steele, Cambridge...

In this article: England, D. H. Lawrence, England, My England and Other Stories, World War I, Cambridge University Press, and USA

...in the March, April and May 1925 issues of the Calendar of Modern Letters. It was then printed as a book, along with St Mawr, by Martin Secker on 14th May 1925. St Mawr and other stories (1925), edited by Brian Finney, Cambridge...

In this article: The Princess, St Mawr, Cambridge University Press, W.S. Gilbert, D. H. Lawrence, and New Mexico

...Poems (Fowler Wright, 1927) To Suffolk (separate, from the above) (Saint Catherine Press, London) Grotesques and Arabesques (Martin Secker, 1928) Eight Poems (W. H. Parkes, Leiston) April's Foal (Red Lion Press, London 1932) The...

In this article: Cecil Howard Lay, Suffolk, Ipswich School, Royal Institute of British Architects, Aldeburgh, London, Ezra Pound, and A.E. Coppard

...of reading and the book became like a compass pointing me towards Wordsworth and Blake and everything else." The publisher Martin Secker, just before his retirement, took on the book - "some people later told me that he was going blind...

In this article: Michael Holroyd, George Bernard Shaw, Edward Gordon Craig, Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, Hugh Kingsmill, Augustus John, and Cancer