The Reading 1900-1950 Newsletter

The Winter Newsletter  for the 1900-1950 Special Collection is out now! It has articles (and lots of pictures) on: Our Yorkshire Writers 1900-1950 event at the university, which included talks on Willie Riley, Winifred Holtby and Phyllis Bentley. Willie Riley, his first bestseller Windyridge (1912), and his publisher, Herbert Jenkins. Crumbling paperbacks from the period, and exactly why … Continue reading →

The Reading 1900-1950 Newsletter

The Spring Newsletter for the 1900-1950 Special Collection is out now! It has articles (and lots of pictures) on: ‘Tauchnitz Editions: the Early Paperback’ –  we’ve received three of these unusual Tauchnitz editions and we look into the background of this German publisher of English language novels on the Continent ‘The Forgotten Frankaus: a Family of Writers’ – … Continue reading →