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Methuen Publishing
Methuen Publishing Ltd (/ˈmɛθjuən/; also known as Methuen Books) is an English publishing house.
It was founded in 1889 by Sir Algernon Methuen (1856–1924) and began publishing in London in 1892. Initially, Methuen mainly published non-fiction academic works, eventually diversifying to encourage female authors and later translated works. E. V. Lucas headed the firm from 1924 to 1938.
In June 1889, as a sideline to teaching, Algernon Methuen began to publish and market his own textbooks under the label Methuen & Co. The company's first success came in 1892 with the publication of Rudyard Kipling's Barrack-Room Ballads. Rapid growth came with works by Marie Corelli, Hilaire Belloc, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Oscar Wilde (De Profundis, 1905) as well as Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan of the Apes.
In 1910, the business was converted into a limited liability company with E. V. Lucas and G. E. Webster joining the founder on the board of directors. The company published the 1920 English translation of Albert Einstein's Relativity, the Special and the General Theory: A Popular Exposition.
With knowledge he had gained of children's literature at the publisher Grant Richards, E. V. Lucas built on the company's early success. Methuen published The Blue Bird: A Fairy Play in Six Acts by Maurice Maeterlinck (winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1911) in an English translation by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. Among the authors Lucas signed to the company were A. A. Milne, Kenneth Grahame, while he also supported illustrators W. Heath Robinson, H. M. Bateman and E. H. Shepard. By the 1920s, it had also a literary list that included Anthony Hope, G. K. Chesterton, Henry James, D. H. Lawrence, T. S. Eliot, Ruth Manning-Sanders and The Arden Shakespeare series.
Following the publication of Lawrence's The Rainbow (1915), Methuen was prosecuted for obscenity. The firm offered no defence and agreed to destroy the remaining stock of 1,011 copies. It is thought that one reason for the firm's failure to support Lawrence was that he had at the time written an unkind portrait of the chief editor's brother, who had recently been killed in France.
In 1924, E. V. Lucas succeeded Algernon Methuen as chairman and led the company until his death in 1938. Besides his executive role, he also received a separate salary as the chief reader of the company. His commercial judgment added authors Enid Blyton, P. G. Wodehouse, Pearl S. Buck and Maurice Maeterlinck to the company's list. In 1935, they published Daniele Varè's novel The Maker of Heavenly Trousers.
In 1930, the company published the popular humorous book 1066 and All That.
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Methuen Publishing
Methuen Publishing Ltd (/ˈmɛθjuən/; also known as Methuen Books) is an English publishing house.
It was founded in 1889 by Sir Algernon Methuen (1856–1924) and began publishing in London in 1892. Initially, Methuen mainly published non-fiction academic works, eventually diversifying to encourage female authors and later translated works. E. V. Lucas headed the firm from 1924 to 1938.
In June 1889, as a sideline to teaching, Algernon Methuen began to publish and market his own textbooks under the label Methuen & Co. The company's first success came in 1892 with the publication of Rudyard Kipling's Barrack-Room Ballads. Rapid growth came with works by Marie Corelli, Hilaire Belloc, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Oscar Wilde (De Profundis, 1905) as well as Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan of the Apes.
In 1910, the business was converted into a limited liability company with E. V. Lucas and G. E. Webster joining the founder on the board of directors. The company published the 1920 English translation of Albert Einstein's Relativity, the Special and the General Theory: A Popular Exposition.
With knowledge he had gained of children's literature at the publisher Grant Richards, E. V. Lucas built on the company's early success. Methuen published The Blue Bird: A Fairy Play in Six Acts by Maurice Maeterlinck (winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1911) in an English translation by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. Among the authors Lucas signed to the company were A. A. Milne, Kenneth Grahame, while he also supported illustrators W. Heath Robinson, H. M. Bateman and E. H. Shepard. By the 1920s, it had also a literary list that included Anthony Hope, G. K. Chesterton, Henry James, D. H. Lawrence, T. S. Eliot, Ruth Manning-Sanders and The Arden Shakespeare series.
Following the publication of Lawrence's The Rainbow (1915), Methuen was prosecuted for obscenity. The firm offered no defence and agreed to destroy the remaining stock of 1,011 copies. It is thought that one reason for the firm's failure to support Lawrence was that he had at the time written an unkind portrait of the chief editor's brother, who had recently been killed in France.
In 1924, E. V. Lucas succeeded Algernon Methuen as chairman and led the company until his death in 1938. Besides his executive role, he also received a separate salary as the chief reader of the company. His commercial judgment added authors Enid Blyton, P. G. Wodehouse, Pearl S. Buck and Maurice Maeterlinck to the company's list. In 1935, they published Daniele Varè's novel The Maker of Heavenly Trousers.
In 1930, the company published the popular humorous book 1066 and All That.