Bodley Head has been used as an imprint of Random House Children's Books since 1987. From April 2008 it will be revived as an adult non-fiction imprint within Random House's CCV division. This article is about imprints in publishing. ... // Random House is a publishing house based in New York City. ...

History

Originally John Lane and Elkin Mathews — The Bodley Head was a partnership set up in 1887 by John Lane (1854–1925) and Elkin Mathews, to trade in antiquarian books in London. It took its name from a bust of Sir Thomas Bodley, the eponymist of the Bodleian Library in Oxford, above the shop door. Lane and Matthews began in 1894 to publish works of ‘stylish decadence’, including the notorious literary periodical The Yellow Book. Possibly two of Bodley Head's most famous pre-Great War books were the two volume sets: Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (1910, with two reprints in 1912 and another in 1913, selling over fifty thousand copies), and Immanuel Kant, both by Houston Stewart Chamberlain. John Lane (March 14, 1854 - February 2, 1925) was a British publisher. ... Charles Elkin Mathews (1851 - November 10, 1921 was a publisher and bookseller who played an important role in the literary life of late 19th and early 20th century London. ... Thomas Bodley Sir Thomas Bodley (March 2, 1545 - January 28, 1613), was an English diplomat and scholar, founder of the Bodleian Library, Oxford. ... Entrance to the Library, with the coats-of-arms of several Oxford colleges The Bodleian Library, the main research library of the University of Oxford, is one of the oldest libraries in Europe, and in England is second in size only to the British Library. ... This page is about the literary journal. ... Houston Stewart Chamberlain Houston Stewart Chamberlain (September 9, 1855 - January 9, 1927) was a British author noted for his works concerning the Aryan race. ...

The Bodley Head became a private company in 1921 and published some mainstream popular authors such as Arnold Bennett and Agatha Christie but ran into financial difficulties. It continued after 1936 backed by a consortium of Allen & Unwin, Jonathan Cape, and J. M. Dent. Allen Lane, John Lane's nephew who had inherited control, finally left to found Penguin Books. Arnold Bennett, British novelist Enoch Arnold Bennett (May 27, 1867-March 27, 1931) was a British novelist. ... Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan, DBE (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976), commonly known as Agatha Christie, was an English crime fiction writer. ... Allen & Unwin, formerly a major British publishing house, is now an independent, Australia-based book publisher and distributor. ... Jonathan Cape has been since 1987 an imprint of Random House. ... Joseph Malaby Dent (30 August 1849–9 May 1926) was a British book publisher who produced the Everymans Library series. ... Sir Allen Lane (21 September 1902–7 July 1970) (born Allen Lane Williams), was a British publisher who founded Penguin Books bringing high quality, paperback fiction and non-fiction to a mass market. ... It has been suggested that Penguin Modern Poets, Penguin Great Ideas be merged into this article or section. ...

Bought in 1957 by Ansbacher & Co., the imprint was still important in the 1970s when it was drawn into the Jonathan Cape/Chatto and Windus group. The firm was sold to Random House in 1987, who have published children's books under The Bodley Head name since. Jonathan Cape has been since 1987 an imprint of Random House. ... Chatto and Windus has been, since 1987, an imprint of Random House, the publishers. ...

Relaunch

April 2008 sees the launch of a new imprint within Random House's CCV division and a revival of the Bodley Head name. In its new incarnation The Bodley Head will be devoted to original non-fiction in all fields. Its two principal strands will be, on the one hand, books of scholarship in both the humanities and sciences and, on the other, books which contribute to the intellectual and cultural climate of our times.

Many of the authors have moved across from Jonathan Cape. These will include Roger Penrose, Norman Davies, Stephen Greenblatt, John D. Barrow, Ben Shephard, Misha Glenny, Ian Mortimer and George Johnson. Others, such as Simon Schama, Nigel Hamilton, Dominique Moïsi, Douglas Rushkoff and Nathaniel Philbrick will be new to the imprint.^{[citation needed]} Jonathan Cape has been since 1987 an imprint of Random House. ... Sir Roger Penrose, OM, FRS (born 8 August 1931) is an English mathematical physicist and Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College. ... Norman Davies, Warsaw (Poland), October 7, 2004 Norman Davies (born June 8, 1939 in Bolton, Lancashire) is an English historian of Welsh descent, noted for his publications on the history of Poland, Europe and the British Isles. ... Stephen Jay Greenblatt (born November 7, 1943) is a literary critic, theorist and scholar. ... John David Barrow FRS (born November 29, 1952, London) is an English cosmologist, theoretical physicist, and mathematician. ... Benjamin Peter Sherrington Shephard (Benny Boy) (born 11 December 1974 in Essex) is an English television presenter. ... Misha Glenny (born 1958) is a British journalist and specialist on Eastern and Southeastern Europe. ... There are several people named George Johnson: George Johnson (Writer) George Johnson (Musician) George Johnson (Manitoba politician) George E. Johnson (basketball player) George T. Johnson (basketball player) George L. Johnson (basketball player) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Simon Schama Simon Michael Schama, CBE (born 13 February 1945) is a professor of history and art history at Columbia University. ... Douglas Rushkoff (born 18 February 1961) is a New York-based writer, columnist and lecturer on technology, media and popular culture. ... Nathaniel Philbrick is an American author and a winner of the National Book Award for his work of maritime history In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex. ...

The Book of Bodley Head Verse (1926)

Edited by J. B. Priestley. Poets included were: John Boynton Priestley, OM (born 13 September 1894, Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, died 14 August 1984, Warwickshire) was an English writer and broadcaster . ...

Lascelles Abercrombie — A. E. — T. B. Aldrich — Kenneth Ashley — Maurice Baring — Aubrey Beardsley — Henry C. Beeching — Arthur Christopher Benson — Archibald Allan Bowman — Mary Brotherton — Emile Cammaerts — Ethel Clifford — Ernest Hartley Coleridge — Stephen Coleridge — Francis Coutts — Lord Curzon Of Kedleston — Olive Custance — John Davidson — Lord de Tabley — Lord Alfred Douglas — Ernest Dowson — Helen Parry Eden — Leolyn Louise Everett — Eugene Field — Darrell Figgis — Norman Gale — Richard Garnett — H. W. Garrod — Stephen Gwynn — John Hay — Alfred Hayes — F. R. Higgins — Katherine Tynan Hinkson — Edmond Holmes — Nora Hopper — Ford Madox Hueffer — E. Pauline Johnson — Herbert Jones — Frank Kendon — Richard Le Gallienne — Arthur E. J. Legge — R. C. Lehmann — Winifred Lucas — E. A. Mackintosh — Alice Meynell — Bernard Miall — Rosa Newmarch — Stephen Phillips — Marjorie L. C. Pickthall — Victor Plarr — Dollie Radford — Dorothy Una Ratcliffe — Ernest Rhys — Lady Margaret Sackville — Vita Sackville-West — Sir Owen Seaman — Leonard Shoobridge — Dora Sigerson — John Still — Arthur Stringer — John B. Tabb — Frederick Tennyson — Francis Thompson — Iris Tree — Emile Verhaeren — I. Henry Wallis — Rosamund Marriott Watson — Sir William Watson — Theodore Watts-Dunton — Margaret Woods Lascelles Abercrombie (also known as the Georgian Laureate) (January 9, 1881 – October 27, 1938) was a British poet and literary critic, one of the Dymock poets. He was born in Ashton upon Mersey and educated at the University of Manchester. ... George William Russell (pseud. ... Maurice Baring (27 April 1874 – 14 December 1945 ) was a versatile English man of letters, known as a dramatist, poet, novelist, translator and essayist, and also as a travel writer and war correspondent. ... Aubrey Beardsley Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (August 21, 1872 – March 16, 1898) was an influential English illustrator, and author, best known for his erotic illustrations. ... Henry Charles Beeching (15 May 1859 - 1919) was an English clergyman, author and poet. ... A C (Arthur Christopher) Benson (1862-1925) was one of six children of Edward White Benson, a late nineteenth_century Archbishop of Canterbury. ... Émile Leon Cammaerts (born March 16, 1878 in Brussels, Belgium; died November 2, 1953 in Radlett, Hertfordshire, England) was a Belgian poet. ... Ernest Hartley Coleridge (1846 – 1920) was a British literary scholar and poet. ... Stephen Coleridge (1854–1936) was a UK author, barrister, opponent of vivisection and co-founder of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. ... Francis Burdett Money Coutts-Nevill, 5th Baron Latymer (1852–1923) was a British banker, heir to Coutts and Company. ... George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (January 11, 1859 - March 20, 1925), was a conservative British statesman and sometime Viceroy of India. ... Olive Custance (1874 – 1944) was a British poet. ... John Davidson is also the name of a former ice hockey player. ... John Byrne Leicester Warren, 3rd Baron De Tabley (26 April 1835 - 22 November 1895) was an English poet. ... Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (22 October 1870 – 20 March 1945) was a poet, a translator and a prose writer, better known as the intimate friend and lover of the writer Oscar Wilde. ... Ernest Christopher Dowson (2 August 1867-23 February 1900), an English poet who was associated with the Decadent Movement, was born at Lee, south-east of London. ... Eugene Field, American writer Eugene Field (September 2, 1850 - November 4, 1895) American writer, best known for poetry for children and for humorous essays. ... Darrell Figgis (1882 - 1925) was an Irish writer and Sinn Fein activist. ... Norman Gale (1862 - 7 October 1942) was a poet, story-teller and reviewer, who published many books over a period of nearly fifty years. ... Richard Garnett (February 27, 1835 – April 13, 1906) was a scholar, librarian, biographer and poet. ... Heathcote William Garrod (1878-1960) was a British classical scholar and literary scholar. ... Stephen Lucius Gwynn (13 February 1864–1950) was an Irish journalist, biographer, poet and Nationalist politician. ... John Milton Hay (October 8, 1838 – July 1, 1905) was an American statesman, diplomat, author, journalist, and private secretary and assistant to Abraham Lincoln. ... Alfred Hayes (April 18, 1911 – August 14, 1985) was a British-born screenwriter, television writer, novelist and poet, who worked in Italy and the United States. ... Frederick Robert Higgins (April 24, 1896 - January 6, 1941) was an Irish poet and theatre director. ... Katharine Tynan (January 23, 1861–April 2, 1931) was a prolific Irish writer, known mainly for her novels and poetry. ... Edmond Gore Alexander Holmes (1850-1936) was an English writer and poet. ... Nora Hopper (January 2, 1871 - April 14, 1906) was an English poet. ... Ford Madox Ford (December 17, 1873 - June 26, 1939) was an English novelist and publisher. ... Emily Pauline Johnson (March 10, 1861 - March 7, 1913) was a Canadian poetess. ... Frank Samuel Herbert Kendon (1893 - December 28, 1959) was an English writer, poet and academic. ... Richard Le Gallienne, in an illustration from his book Prose Fancies Richard Thomas Le Gallienne (1866 - 1947) was an English man of letters, very much associated with the literary world of London in the 1890s; after that he resided in the USA, without altering his period style. ... There is also Rudolph Lehmann (artist) (1819-1905) Rudolph Chambers Lehmann was an English writer, best known for his tenure for three decades as editor of Punch magazine; and for his children John Lehmann, Rosamund Lehmann and the actress Beatrix Lehmann (1903-1979). ... Alice Meynell (September 22, 1847 _ November 27, 1922) was an English writer and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet. ... Stephen Phillips (28 July 1868- 1915) was a British poet and dramatist, who enjoyed considerable popularity in his lifetime. ... Victor Gustave Plarr (1863 – 1929) was an English poet; he is probably best known for the single poem Epitaphium Citharistriae. ... Caroline Maitland ( 1858 – 1920) was an English poet and writer. ... Ernest Percival Rhys (July 17, 1859 – May 25, 1946) was an English writer, best known for his role as founding editor of the Everymans Library series of affordable classics. ... Lady Margaret Sackville (1881 – 1963) was an English poet and children’s author. ... Victoria Mary Sackville-West, The Hon Lady Nicolson, CH (March 9, 1892 – June 2, 1962), best known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English poet, novelist and gardener. ... Sir Owen Seaman (1861 - 1936) was a British writer, journalist and poet. ... Dora Sigerson (1866 - 1918) was an Irish poet, who after her marriage in 1895 wrote under the name Dora Sigerson Shorter. ... John Still (c. ... Frederick Tennyson (1807 - 1898), poet, was the eldest son of the Rector of Somersby, Lincolnshire, and brother of Alfred Tennyson. ... Francis Thompson (December 18, 1859–November 13, 1907) was an English poet born in Preston, Lancashire. ... Iris Tree (1897 – 1968) was a English poet and actress, described as a bohemian, an eccentric, a wit and an adventuress. ... Emile Verhaeren (May 21, 1855- November 27, 1916) was a Belgian poet writing in the French language, and one of the chief founders of the school of Symbolism. ... Rosamund Marriott Watson Rosamund Marriott Watson (1860 – 1911) was a Victorian poet and critic who wrote under the pseudonym of Graham R. Tomson. ... Sir William Watson (1858 – 1935) was an English poet, popular in his time for the political content of his verse; his reputation faded. ... Theodore Watts-Dunton (October 12, 1832 - June 6, 1914) was an English critic and poet. ... Margaret Louisa Woods (1856 - 1945) was an English writer, known for novels and poetry. ...

Forthcoming titles

McMafia: Crime Without Frontiers — Misha Glenny (3 April 2008) —- A first-hand account of international organised crime and a critique of globalisation's dark side. Misha Glenny (born 1958) is a British journalist and specialist on Eastern and Southeastern Europe. ...

Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science —- John D. Barrow (3 April 2008) —- Professor of Cosmology John Barrow tells the story of science through its most influential images. John David Barrow FRS (born November 29, 1952, London) is an English cosmologist, theoretical physicist, and mathematician. ...

Great hatred, Little Room: Making Peace in Northern Ireland —- Jonathan Powell (3 April 2008) —- The definitive account of the Northern Ireland Peace Process, by one of the key players – Tony Blair's ex-Chief of Staff, Jonathan Powell.

See also

• www.bodleyhead.co.uk

• Max Reinhardt

Max Reinhardt (born 30 November 1915 in Constantinople; died 19 November 2002 in Richmond-upon-Thames) was a prominent British publisher. ...

Bibliography

• Stetz, Margaret; Lasner, Mark Samuels (1990). England in the 1890s: Literary Publishing at the Bodley Head. Georgetown Univ Press. ISBN 0-87840-509-7.
• J W Lambert and Michael Ratcliffe The Bodley Head 1887-1987 The story of John Lane, Allen Lane, Unwin and Max Reinhardt and their links with Bodley Head. ^[1]

John Lane is in reference to. ... Sir Allen Lane (21 September 1902–7 July 1970) (born Allen Lane Williams), was a British publisher who founded Penguin Books bringing high quality, paperback fiction and non-fiction to a mass market. ... Max Reinhardt (born 30 November 1915 in Constantinople; died 19 November 2002 in Richmond-upon-Thames) was a prominent British publisher. ...

External links

• Archives of the Bodley Head Ltd at Reading University

Footnotes