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T. Fisher Unwin

T. Fisher Unwin
StatusDefunct
Founded1882
FounderThomas Fisher Unwin
SuccessorErnest Benn Limited
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Publication typesBooks

T. Fisher Unwin was the London publishing house founded by Thomas Fisher Unwin, husband of British Liberal politician Jane Cobden in 1882.[1]

Unwin fashioned a "highly competitive company with a reputation for discovering and marketing promising new authors".[2] 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"[2] 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,[3] Friedrich Nietzsche,[4] H. G. Wells, Olive Schreiner,[5] W. B. Yeats, Ford Madox Ford, Sigmund Freud, Ouida and E. Nesbit.

T. Fisher Unwin employed a "skilful team"[6] including Edward Garnett as reader (who recommended Almayer’s Folly for publication) and David Rice as chief salesman.

During much of the company's first two decades T. Fisher Unwin's office was located at Paternoster Square, London[7] and in 1905 it relocated to 1 Adelphi Square, London (with a branch at Inselstrasse 20, Leipzig).[8]

Thomas Fisher Unwin's latterly more famous nephew Stanley Unwin started his career by working in his uncle's firm. In 1914 Stanley Unwin purchased a controlling interest in the firm George Allen and Sons, and established George Allen and Unwin, later to become Allen and Unwin.[9]

Unwin retired to his home in Sussex in 1926, following which his publishing house merged with Ernest Benn Limited.[1]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference ODNB was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b Graham Law, "Unwin, T. Fisher", The Oxford Companion to the Book, Oxford University Press, 2010 (online edition). Retrieved 26 December 2023.
  3. ^ Ibsen T. Fisher Unwin, worldcat.org. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
  4. ^ Nietzsche T. Fisher Unwin, worldcat.org. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
  5. ^ Olive Schreiner T. Fisher Unwin, worldcat.org. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
  6. ^ Owen Knowles and Gene M. Moore, eds., Unwin, "T (Thomas) Fisher", Oxford Reader’s Companion To Conrad, 2000; 2011 (online edition). Retrieved 26 December 2023.
  7. ^ Rome From The Earliest Times To The End Of The Republic, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1885, worldcat.org. Retrieved 28 December 2923.
  8. ^ J. B. Purvis, Through Uganda to Mount Elgon, London and Leipzig: T. Fisher Unwin, 1909, title page. Retrieved 27 December 2023.
  9. ^ "Unwin, Sir Stanley (1884–1968)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 7 February 2018, retrieved 28 April 2022

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