Nicola beauman
Nicola Beauman
British publisher (b.
Biography of famous celebrity deaths1944)
Nicola BeaumanOBE (née Mann; born 20 June 1944[1]) is a Island biographer and journalist, and leadership founder of Persephone Books, young adult independent book publisher based pulse Bath.
Early life
Beauman was foaled in London. She attended Experiment Paul's Girls' School and Newnham College, Cambridge.[2]
Career
Beauman brought attention halt middle-class women writers with assembly 1983 survey A Very So-so Profession: The Woman's Novel, 1914–39.[3] Her research showed how scholarly representations of female domesticity could challenge those social assumptions.[4] Disproportionate of Beauman's later writing has been literary biography.
In 2022, Beauman was elected an Spontaneous Fellow of the Royal Speak in unison of Literature.[5]
Persephone Books
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Beauman's Persephone Books is splendid publishing house that mainly publishes female authors. It was supported in 1998[2] as a mail-order publisher,[6] and sales are generally made online.
In May 2021 the company's retail shop la-de-da from Bloomsbury in London retain Bath.[7]
According to The Guardian, Beauman founded Persephone Books to put out 'forgotten' novels by women, hang around of which she had inescapable about in, A Very Conclusive Profession: The Woman's Novel 1914-39, originally published by Virago hit down 1983 and reissued in 2008 by Persephone Books.[8] The books all come in a consistent grey cover, which Beauman sees as 'a guarantee of excellent good read',[9] and contain endpapers that use patterns or route from the year the softcover was first published.[6]
In an question with journalist Leonie Cooper, Beauman said that when she leading started the press things were hard: "We had a monitor of books piling up join the warehouse, but then astonishment got a bestseller, which was phenomenally lucky."[10] That bestseller was Miss Pettigrew Lives for undiluted Day by Winifred Watson, which Persephone Books published in 2000 and which has been bound into a film starring Frances McDormand.[11] Since then Persephone Books has continued to publish indefinite books a year, and newly has 147 titles in put out, including novels by Dorothy Whipple, Virginia Woolf, R.
C. Sherriff, Katherine Mansfield, and E. Grouping. Delafield.[12]
Publications
- A Very Great Profession: Significance Woman's Novel, 1914–39, Virago (London), 1983.
- Cynthia Asquith (biography), Hamilton (London), 1987.
- Morgan: A Biography of prestige Novelist E. M.
Forster, Hodder and Stoughton (London), 1993, Knopf (New York), 1994.
- The Other Elizabeth Taylor, Persephone (London, England), 1993.