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Description: | Correspondence and attached material, addressed to Westall from various subsidiaries of the Penguin group, including Puffin, the Puffin Club, Allen Lane, Viking, Kestrel, later correspondence on notepaper headed Puffin Viking Kestrel and Puffin Viking Children's Books Fantail. The Penguin group and its various subsidiary companies were responsible for the first publication of 'The Devil on the Road', 'Fathom Five', Futuretrack 5', 'Children of the Blitz', 'Urn Burial', 'Echoes of War', 'The Call and other stories', 'The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral' and 'The Wheatstone Pond'. The correspondence generally concerns the editorial process, pre-publication design and rights issues. The file includes correspondence from, amongst others, Kaye Webb concerning the Puffin edition of 'The Machine Gunners', Westall's contribution of 'Hetero Homo Bi or Nothing' to 'Is Anyone There?' (ed. Monica Dickens, Puffin, 1978) and contributions to the Puffin Post. Later correspondence from Tony Lacey concerning 'The Devil on the Road', 'Fathom Five' and 'Future Track 5' and 'Antique Dust' and occasional correspondence on the same titles from Catriona Luckhurst, Annie Winterbotham and Liz Attenborough. The file also includes correspondence from Sally Floyer concerning 'Children of the Blitz' and 'Urn Burial'. Later correspondence is principally from Philipa Milnes Smith (who began work at Puffin/Viking Kestrel in 1987 after moving from Blackie, see RW/14/01/01) and relates to 'Echoes of War', 'The Call and other stories', 'The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral' and 'The Wheatstone Pond'. The file also contains correspondence from rights and publicity departments concerning the above titles and licences for books first published elsewhere but acquired by Penguin.
The file also contains correspondence and a play script relating to a theatrical adaptation of 'The Machine Gunners' for touring in schools by the Snap People's Theatre Trust (1984-1986). | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Rights holder: | Seven Stories | Subjects: | Seven Stories | Source: | Seven Stories | Identifier: | RW/14/01/20 | Go to resource |
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