T. Fisher Unwin was the London publishing house founded by

Thomas Fisher Unwin Thomas Fisher Unwin (24 January 1848 – 6 February 1935) was an English publisher who founded the publishing house of T. Fisher Unwin. Early life and career Thomas Fisher Unwin was born on 24 January 1848 in 33 Lowgate Hill, London. He was the ...

, husband of British Liberal politician

Jane Cobden Emma Jane Catherine Cobden (28 April 1851 – 7 July 1947), known as Jane Cobden, was a British Liberal politician who was active in many radical causes. A daughter of the Victorian reformer and statesman Richard Cobden, she was an early ...

in 1882. Unwin was a co-founder of the Johnson Club, formed 13 September 1884, to mark the hundred years since the death of Dr Samuel Johnson. The latterly more famous Stanley Unwin (his nephew) 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 George Allen & Unwin was a British publishing company formed in 1911 when Sir Stanley Unwin purchased a controlling interest in George Allen & Co. It went on to become one of the leading publishers of the twentieth century and to establish an ...

, later to become ''Allen and Unwin''. Unwin retired to his home in Sussex in 1926, following which his publishing house merged with Ernest Benn Limited.

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*The Adelphi Library *Army Examination Series *Autonym LibraryPseudonym Library / Autonym Library

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, delart.org. Retrieved 28 June 2021. *Builders of Greater Britain *Cabinet Library (also known as: Unwin's Cabinet Library) *Centenary Series *The Children's Library *Every Irishman's Library *First Novel Library *Half-Holiday Handbooks *Independent Novels *Library of Irish Literature *The Library of Literary History *Little Novels *Lives Worth Living *

Mermaid Series The Mermaid Series was a major collection of reprints of texts from English Elizabethan, Jacobean and Restoration drama. It was launched in 1887 by the British publisher Henry Vizetelly and under the general editorship of Havelock Ellis. ...

*The Mind of the Century *Overseas Library *Pseudonym Library *The Reformer's Bookshelf *Six Shilling Novels *The Story of the Nations Library *Unwin's Colonial Library * Unwin's Green Cloth LibraryMrs. Campbell Praed
The Insane Root : A Romance of a Strange Country
London: T. Fisher, Unwin, preliminary pages. Retrieved 28 June 2021. *The Welsh Library

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