T. Fisher Unwin

T. Fisher Unwin was the London publishing house founded by Thomas Fisher Unwin, husband of British Liberal politician Jane Cobden in 1882. Unwin fashioned a "highly competitive company with a reputation for discovering and marketing promising new authors". The company published fiction series such as the Pseudonym Library and the Overseas Library through which promising new authors such as Joseph Conrad, John Galsworthy and W. Somerset Maugham could be "profitably marketed to a growing middle-class reading public" in the 1890s. In the years 1895-1898 Unwin published Joseph Conrad’s first novel Almayer’s Folly and his An Outcast of the Islands and Tales of Unrest; in 1897 it published Maugham's first novel Liza of Lambeth. The company's list also included works by Henrik Ibsen, Friedrich Nietzsche, H. G. Wells, Olive Schreiner, W. B. Yeats, Ford Madox Ford, Sigmund Freud, Ouida and E.

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