Frances Lincoln

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Frances Lincoln
Frances Lincoln Publishers
; Woman of the Year for Services to Multicultural Publishing (1995)

Frances Elisabeth Rosemary Lincoln (20 March 1945 – 26 February 2001) was an English independent publisher of illustrated books.

Frances Lincoln Publishers. In 1995, Lincoln won the Woman of the Year for Services to Multicultural Publishing award.[1]

Education

Frances Lincoln went "unhappily"

Career

In 1970, Lincoln started work as an Assistant Editor at the London-based publishing firm of Studio Vista. She went on to become its managing director. From Studio Vista, she moved to a job with the publisher Marshall Cavendish, and from there to Weidenfeld and Nicolson, where she was given her own imprint.[1]

A story that followed her throughout her career, often passed on from employees to new recruits, was of the staff-walkout and demonstration she headed while at Studio Vista in 1975. This was a protest against redundancies proposed by

Collier Macmillan, the firm that had come to own Studio Vista. The protest went on for some days, and was described as a strike; it achieved concessions from Collier Macmillan.[1]

Frances Lincoln Publishers

In 1977, Frances went out on her own as an independent publisher/packager, publishing both under her own name and in co-editions. The firm she founded continued as Frances Lincoln Publishers, based in London, until 2018.[4][5] In August 2011, The Quarto Group acquired Frances Lincoln Publishers for £4.5 million,[6] making it the Frances Lincoln Children's Book imprint. The firm was known for the list of illustrated gardening books it published, and for its illustrated children's books.[5] Among these were David Litchfield's The Bear and the Piano, which won the 2016 Waterstones Children's Book Prize for Illustrated Books,[7] and Lizzy Stewart's There's a Tiger in the Garden, which won the same prize in 2017.[8]

Family

Frances Lincoln married John Nicoll, the author of the first book she had commissioned. Nicoll later headed Yale University Press in the United Kingdom. The couple had a son and two daughters.[1] Lincoln died from pneumonia aged 55 in 2001.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Girouard, Mark (2 March 2001). "Frances Lincoln". The Guardian.
  2. ^ Whiteman, Yvonne (6 March 2001). "Frances Lincoln". The Independent. Archived from the original on 7 February 2009.
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  4. ^ "About Us". franceslincoln.com. 2010. Archived from the original on 13 February 2010. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
  5. ^ a b Richardson, Tim (10 February 2018). "Frances Lincoln closure marks end of an era for cultivated garden writing". Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  6. ^ Neill, Graeme (16 August 2011). "Quarto Snaps-up Frances Lincoln". The Bookseller. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
  7. ^ Pauli, Michelle (17 March 2016). "David Solomons wins Waterstones prize with superhero story". The Guardian.
  8. ^ Kean, Danuta (30 March 2017). "Waterstones children's book prize goes to 'mesmerising' debut adventure story". The Guardian.