Grant Richards papers, 1897-1930s | Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Title: Grant Richards papers, 1897-1930s

ID: 01/MSS00016

Extent: 8.73 Cubic Feet

This collection is arranged into three main series: 1.) Correspondence, 2.) Visual materials, and 2.) Mixed materials. Series 1 contains five sub-series, which are arranged in alphabetical order.

Creators

Richards, Grant (1872-1948)

Administrative/Biographical History

Franklin Thomas Grant Richards (1872-1948) was a British publisher and author. The son of Franklin Thomas Richards, A Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, and a nephew of the author Grant Allen, Richards started his first publishing house in 1897 in Covent Garden. In 1901, Richards launched the The World's Classics series of paperbacks, which is still published today by Oxford University Press as Oxford World's Classics. Because of high demand for these books, the publishing house went into debt and fell out of business in 1905. Richards continued to work in publishing and opened another firm, E. Grant Richards (for his first wife, Elisina). Richards also published works under Grant Richards Ltd., and--when the firm went bankrupt again in 1926--under Richards Press.

Richards published authors including George Bernard Shaw, A. E. Housman, Samuel Butler, and James Joyce. He also authored nine novels and two autobiographies of his own. Richards's published works include Caviare (1912), Valentine (1913), Bittersweet (1915), Double Life: A Novel (1920), Every Wife: An Amusement (1924), Fair Exchange (1927), Memories of a Misspent Youth, 1872-1896 (1932), and Author Hunting, by an Old Literary Sportsman; Memories of Years Spent Mainly in Publishing, 1897-1925 (1934).

His first marriage to Elisina Palamidessi de Castelvecchio (a descendant of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte) ended in divorce in 1914, and he remarried to Maria Magdalena de Csanady in 1915. Richards died in Monaco in 1948.

Sources

Jaillant, Lise. "Grant Richards." modernistarchives.com.

"Mr. Grant Richards," The Times (London), 25 February 1948, Issue 51004, p. 7.

Author: Jonathan Puckett

Subjects (links to similar collections)

Authors and publishers - Great Britain
Publishers and publishing
Publishers and publishing - Great Britain

Languages of Materials

English
French
German

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Scope and Contents:

The Grant Richards papers document the professional life of Grant Richards (1872-1948), a British publisher and writer. The bulk of the collection is comprised of correspondence, with letters sent to and written by Richards, letters sent to his first wife Elisina Palamidessi de Castelvecchio, and third party correspondence. The majority of this correspondence is business in nature, such as aspiring writers sending manuscripts for consideration, firms negotiating terms, magazines requesting advance review copies of books, and banks requesting repayment, and sheds light on the regular course of business of the publishing field during the first part of the 20th century. The collection also includes business documents from his corporate dealings and bankruptcies.

Additionally, the collection contains research and notes by Professor Bruce Harkness done at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign on Grant Richards, and includes correspondence from Richards’ second wife Marie Madeleine Agnes Richards.