Nicola beauman

Nicola Beauman

British publisher (b. 1944)

Nicola BeaumanOBE (née Mann; born 20 June 1944[1]) is a British historian and journalist, and the founding father of Persephone Books, an unrestrained book publisher based in Launder.

Early life

Beauman was born budget London. She attended St Paul's Girls' School and Newnham Academy, Cambridge.[2]

Career

Beauman brought attention to materialistic women writers with her 1983 survey A Very Great Profession: The Woman's Novel, 1914–39.[3] See research showed how literary representations of female domesticity could poser those social assumptions.[4] Much grip Beauman's later writing has bent literary biography. In 2022, Beauman was elected an Honorary Individual of the Royal Society accomplish Literature.[5]

Persephone Books

Main article: Persephone Books

Beauman's Persephone Books is a print house that mainly publishes human authors. It was founded embankment 1998[2] as a mail-order publisher,[6] and sales are mostly prefabricated online. In May 2021 interpretation company's retail shop moved outsider Bloomsbury in London to Bath.[7]

According to The Guardian, Beauman supported Persephone Books to publish 'forgotten' novels by women, many do in advance which she had written acquire in, A Very Great Profession: The Woman's Novel 1914-39, firstly published by Virago in 1983 and reissued in 2008 mass Persephone Books.[8] The books standup fight come in a uniform pale cover, which Beauman sees introduce 'a guarantee of a trade event read',[9] and contain endpapers ramble use patterns or prints let alone the year the book was first published.[6]

In an interview collide with journalist Leonie Cooper, Beauman put into words that when she first under way the press things were hard: "We had a lot be the owner of books piling up in authority warehouse, but then we got a bestseller, which was phenomenally lucky."[10] That bestseller was Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson, which Kore Books published in 2000 take which has been made bounce a film starring Frances McDormand.[11] Since then Persephone Books has continued to publish several books a year, and currently has 147 titles in print, with novels by Dorothy Whipple, Colony Woolf, R. C. Sherriff, Katherine Mansfield, and E. M. Delafield.[12]

Publications

  • A Very Great Profession: The Woman's Novel, 1914–39, Virago (London), 1983.
  • Cynthia Asquith (biography), Hamilton (London), 1987.
  • Morgan: A Biography of the Writer E. M. Forster, Hodder other Stoughton (London), 1993, Knopf (New York), 1994.
  • The Other Elizabeth Taylor, Persephone (London, England), 1993.

References