Adventures with Authors

An insight into the notoriously delicate relationship between author and publisher.

S. C. Roberts (Author)

9780521136419, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 25 February 2010

288 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.6 cm, 0.37 kg

To a wide circle of friends 'S. C.' was known as a vivid raconteur and mimic; more formally he was recognised as a publisher of skill and distinction. He joined Cambridge University Press as assistant secretary in 1911, served four war years in the Suffolk Regiment, with a wound at Ypres, and three years after his return was appointed Secretary of the Press. His adventures and achievements in that capacity are the subject of the main part of this book. His 'Adventures' contain first, a rich collection of his 'stories'. These are not merely comic, though they are certainly that. They are shrewd and sympathetic and they offer a series of insights into human nature, especially in the notoriously delicate relationship between author and publisher. Roberts' 'Authors' include Jeans and Rutherford, Dover Wilson and Granville Barker, Housman and de la Mare and many others. Secondly the book is a record, by one who was at once a participant and a spectator, of the way of life of a major university as it evolved from the Victorian to the modern mode.

1. Undergraduate
2. Publishing and soldiering
3. Post-war Cambridge
4. Secretary to the Syndics
5. Pembroke in the nineteen-twenties
6. Johnsoniana
7. Science a best seller
8. Histories and historians
9. Poets and critics
10. Play acting
11. A miscellany of authors
12. Light and shade in the nineteen-thirties
13. Varieties of war-time experience
14. Vice-Chancellor
15. At home and abroad
16. More Johnsoniana
17. Sherlock Holmes
18. Max
19. Films and libraries
20. Emeritus
Index.

Subject Areas: Bibliographies, catalogues [GBCR]