Richards, Grant, 1872-1948

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English publisher and author; full name: Franklin Thomas Grant Richards.

From the description of Grant Richards papers, 1897-1936. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 319637744

British author and publisher.

From the description of Grant Richards collection of A.E. Housman material, 1898-1947 (bulk 1910-1942). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980264

Epithet: publisher

British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001305.0x00038b

Biographical Note

Grant Richards

  • 1872, Oct.: Born, Oxford, England
  • 1890: Became staff member of Review of Reviews
  • 1897: Opened his own publishing firm
  • 1897 - 1899 : Published works of Maurice Maeterlinck, G. B. Shaw, Arnold Bennett, H. G. Wells, Grant Allen, Alice Meynell; also published first works of John Masefield and G. K. Chesterton
  • 1898: Published second edition of A. E. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad. London: G. Richards
  • 1912: Published Caviare. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co.
  • 1913: Published Valentine. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co.
  • 1915: Published Bittersweet. London: G. Richards
  • 1920: Published Double Life. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co.
  • 1922: Published A. E. Housman’s Last Poems. London: G. Richards
  • 1924: Published Every Wife. New York: E. J. Clode
  • 1927: Published Fair Exchange. New York: George H. Doran Co.
  • 1928: Published The Coast of Pleasure. New York: Harper & Brothers Published The Hasty Marriage. London: J. Cape
  • 1932: Published Memories of a Misspent Youth. London: W. Heinemann
  • 1942: Published Housman. New York: Oxford University Press
  • 1948: Died, Monte Carlo

A. E. Housman

  • 1859, March 26: Born at Catskill, Worcestershire, England
  • 1870 - 1877 : Educated at Bromsgrove School, Worcestershire, England
  • 1877 - 1881 : Educated at St. John’s College, Oxford, England
  • 1882 - 1892 : Worked in English patent office as a higher division clerk
  • 1892: Professor of Latin, University College, London, Englnd
  • 1896: Published A Shropshire Lad. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trűbner
  • 1898: Published second edition of A Shropshire Lad. London: G. Richards
  • 1911: Kennedy professor of Latin, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England
  • 1922: Published Last Poems. London: G. Richards
  • 1936: Published More Poems. London: J. Cape
  • 1936, April 30: Died, Cambridge, England

From the guide to the Grant Richards Collection of A. E. Housman Material, 1898-1947, (bulk 1910-1942), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)

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