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Georgina Masson. Georgina Masson (1912–1980) was a British author [1] and photographer. Born Marion Johnson, and known as Babs to her friends, Georgina Masson is her literary pseudonym. Johnson was born in Rawalpindi, India, on 23 March 1912. She was the daughter of an officer stationed in India at the time. [2] She died in 1980 in London.
Chopping's first novel, The Fly (Secker & Warburg, 1965) was recommended to its publisher by Angus Wilson, where David Farrar found it "a perfectly disgusting concoction". It was edited by Giles Gordon, who later wrote that he was determined to like the novel, hoping that "more, and no doubt better, books would follow.
First edition (publ. Secker & Warburg) Critical Essays (1946) is a collection of wartime pieces by George Orwell. It covers a variety of topics in English literature, and also includes some pioneering studies of popular culture. It was acclaimed by critics, and Orwell himself thought it one of his most important books.
0-7493-9883-3. OCLC. 32131487. How late it was, how late is a 1994 stream-of-consciousness novel written by Scottish writer James Kelman. The Glasgow -centred work is written in a working-class Scottish dialect, and follows Sammy, a shoplifter and ex-convict. It won the 1994 Booker Prize .
Secker & Warburg was formed in 1936 by the merger of the firms of Martin Secker and Frederic Warburg. The British publishing company became renowned for its anti-fascist and anti-communist political stance, a position that opposed the ethos of many intellectuals of the time. After George Orwell parted company with Communist Party sympathizer ...
Letters Sent. Title. Author. Recipient. Letter from Martin Secker Ltd to The Hogarth Press (31/07/1933) Secker & Warburg. The Hogarth Press. Letter from Martin Secker Ltd to The Hogarth Press (19/06/1934) Secker & Warburg, Roscoe Beddoes.
About: Secker & Warburg is a publishing company formed in 1936 by the merger of Martin Secker's publishing firm with Frederic Warburg's. The company took an anti-facist and anti-Soviet stance and published among other writers George Orwell (after his departure from Victora Gollancz), Cedric Dover, D. H. Lawrence, C. L. R. James, Frank Moraes ...
