Stephen Watson Fullom (1818 – 1872) was a journalist, author of several books, and a publisher's reader.
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He also worked as a publisher's reader, and from 1925 ran a law stationers' business in the City of London.
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Christopher Hugh Derrick (12 June 1921 – 2 October 2007) was an English author, reviewer, publisher's reader and lecturer. All his works are informed by wide interest in contemporary problems and a lively commitment to Catholic teaching.
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Allen Lane. p.132 after it was published, they never spoke again. In 1911, Lawrence was introduced to Edward Garnett, a publisher's reader, who acted as a mentor and became a valued friend, as did his son David.
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He was Chief Publisher's Reader from 1987–90 for Chatto & Windus. Spufford was a Royal Literary Fund fellow at Anglia Ruskin University from 2005 to 2007, and since 2008 has taught at Goldsmiths College in London on the MA in Creative and Life Writing there. In 2018 he was made a professor.
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After unsuccessfully trying to begin a career in the British national press, Cooper became a junior reporter for The Middlesex Independent, based in Brentford. She worked for the paper from 1957 to 1959. Subsequently, she worked as an account executive, copywriter, publisher's reader and receptionist. Her break came with a chance meeting at a dinner party.
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Arthur Bernard Miall was born in Croydon in 1876.Library of Congress Name Authority File He published a poem in the Yellow Book in 1897,Modernist Magazines: A. Bernard Miall and published a couple of volumes of poetry in the 1890s. In 1914 he became publisher's reader for Allen & Unwin. Miall was living in Berrynarbor, Devon in 1925.
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Daisy Jeanne Sampson was born in St Helens, England, on 30 January 1922. She graduated from the London School of Economics in 1943. She worked as a civil servant during the Second World War and subsequently as a publisher's reader for Hamish Hamilton and as a marriage counselor. She authored several books, both independently and with her husband.
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After compulsory military service he was at first a publisher's reader, then a stage director and finally a director of puppet section at Triglav film. In that time he also married and got a daughter. Since 1963, when he left film, he earned his money by writing and translation. Then he employed himself as the editor of drama editorial board at RTV Ljubljana.
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Several of Fullom's books were reviewed in the Athenaeum.Athenaeum Index: Author Record for Fullom, S. W. His book The marvels of science, and their testimony to Holy Writ, first published by Longman in 1852, was a best-seller of its day and by 1856 had run through 10 editions. He was a publisher's reader for the firm of Henry Colburn and recommended Margaret Oliphant's first novel (Margaret Maitland) for publication.
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Mabel E. Wotton was born in London to Frances Emily and John Stirling Wilmot Wotton, a civil servant. (Note that her Times death notice gives her father's name as Henry Stirling Wotton.) Her older brother Thomas wrote plays, and her younger sister Edith was a publisher's reader. In 1895, through the actress Irene Vanbrugh, Wotton met Israel Zangwill. Zangwill introduced Wotton's work to the publisher John Lane, who accepted Day-Books for his controversial Keynotes series.
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Mary Margaret Brenchley was born on 17 June 1924, to a printing company director. She attended Milton Mount College then Royal Holloway, University of London, studying French and English. While at university, she published two short stories. After working as a publisher's reader, an English teacher and assistant stage manager at the Hereford Theatre, she met the jockey Dick Francis at a wedding in 1945, and married him in 1947, making her wedding dress out of cheesecloth.
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From 1950 to 1960 David worked at Bantam, starting as a publisher's reader then advancing to editorial director and editor in chief. He had known Bantam's president Oscar Dystel during their time working on Stars and Stripes in Cairo. Whilst at Bantam David lured Ross Macdonald away from Pocket Books and hired artist James Avati. Rather than reprint several hardcover Western authors, David thought of hiring and promoting one author to write three original books for Bantam every year.
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"Farewell to Christopher Derrick", The Tablet, 20 October 2007, p. 44. For a time he was himself the editor of Good Work, the journal of the Catholic Art Association.Merton Center website His daily occupation as a publisher's reader and a book reviewer meant constant engagement with the emerging trends of literary culture. He drew on this in many ways, including the writing of a book of advice for aspiring novelists: Reader's Report on the Writing of Novels.
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She had earned a degree in English and French from London University at the age of 19, was an assistant stage manager, and later worked as a publisher's reader. She also became a pilot, and her experience of flying contributed to many novels, including Flying Finish, Rat Race, and Second Wind. She contracted polio while pregnant with their first child. (Francis drew from this in his novel Forfeit, which he has said was one of his favorites).
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This led to further commissions, including the editing of the works of Charles Lamb. Lucas joined the staff of the humorous magazine Punch in 1904, and remained there for the rest of his life. He was a prolific writer, most celebrated for his short essays, but he also produced verses, novels and plays. From 1908 to 1924 Lucas combined his work as a writer with that of publisher's reader for Methuen and Co. In 1924 he was appointed chairman of the company.
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Julia Strachey (14 August 1901 – 1979) was an English writer, born in Allahabad, India, where her father, Oliver Strachey, the elder brother of Lytton Strachey, was a civil servant. Her mother, Ruby, was of Swiss-German origin. For most of Julia's life she lived in England, where she worked as a model at Poiret, as a photographer and as a publisher's reader, before she embarked upon a career in novel-writing. She is perhaps best remembered for her work Cheerful Weather for the Wedding.
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She also disliked love scenes and domestic novels in general. Popular authors she reviewed included Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, George Meredith and Wilkie Collins. Jewsbury also worked as a publisher's reader for Hurst and Blackett and for Bentley, recommending, for example, that the latter publish Ellen Wood's best-selling East Lynne (1861), although turning down such later successful authors as M. E. Braddon and Ouida. She often used her place with Bentley to boost the careers of other female writers, including friends like Margaret Oliphant and Frances Power Cobbe.
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A publisher's reader or first reader is a person paid by a publisher or book sales club to read manuscripts from the slush pile, and to advise their employers as to quality and marketability of the work. In the US, most publishers use a full-time employee for this, if they do it at all. That employee is called an editorial assistant. Most publishers in the US prefer to receive some type of shorter query, decide if the subject and author fit their current plans, and then request a copy of the manuscript.
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Budz was born on November 1, 1960, in Cherry Hill, New Jersey into a family that traveled prodigiously because his father worked for the National Park Service, living in Arizona, California, and Colorado. In 1982, Budz graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a bachelor's degree in architectural engineering. After graduating, he worked at several different jobs, including as a sales at manufacturer’s representative for ITT Bell & Gossett, in retail sales, as a publisher's reader for a small press, and technical support. Currently, Budz is a technical writer for a software company near Silicon Valley.
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Edward, after working as a publisher's reader for T. Fisher Unwin, William Heinemann, and Duckworth, went on to become a distinguished reader for the publisher Jonathan Cape. In the summer of 1891, then pregnant with her only child, she was introduced by Edward to the Russian exile Feliks Volkhovsky, who began teaching her Russian. He also introduced her to his fellow exile and colleague Sergius Stepniak and his wife Fanny. Soon after, Garnett began working with Stepniak, translating Russian works for publication; her first published translations were "A Common Story" by Ivan Goncharov, and "The Kingdom of God is Within You" by Leo Tolstoy.
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Publication of The Left Bank and Other Stories came about as a result of Rhys's lover and literary mentor, Ford Madox Ford, sending the stories to his London contact, influential publisher's reader Edward Garnett. The book was well received by critics on its initial release, establishing Rhys's early writing career. The book went out of print during Rhys's 1939-1966 period of obscurity but, following the resurgence of her career due to Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), The Left Bank collection was republished in part by André Deutsch in Tigers are Better-Looking (1968), which included nine of the original twenty- two stories. The collection was next republished 1976 by W. W. Norton & Company, then again after Rhys's death by Penguin Classics incorprorated into a wider compilation entitled Jean Rhys, The Collected Short Stories.
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His first successful novel was Diana of the Crossways published in 1885. The Death of Chatterton by Henry Wallis, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery version, for which Meredith posed in 1856 Meredith supplemented his often uncertain writer's income with a job as a publisher's reader. His advice to Chapman and Hall made him influential in the world of letters. His friends in the literary world included, at different times, William and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Cotter Morison,Meredith's place in the circles of Rosetti, Swinburne, Morison, Sir Alexander Duff-Gordon and Sir William Hardman is described in S. M. Ellis, A Mid-Victorian Pepys, The Letters and Memoirs of Sir William Hardman, M.A., F.R.G.S (Cecil Palmer, London 1923), which includes an early photograph of George Meredith with his son Arthur Meredith, facing p. 50.
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