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Sidgwick and Jackson

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Parent company
  
Pan Macmillan

Headquarters location
  
London, United Kingdom

Country of origin
  
United Kingdom

Publication types
  
Books

Founded
  
1908

Parent organization
  
Macmillan Ltd

Official website
  

Sidgwick & Jackson is an imprint of book publishing company Pan Macmillan. It was founded in Britain in 1908. Notable early authors include poet Rupert Brooke and novelist E.M. Forster. In more recent times it helped launch the careers of Lynda La Plante, Shirley Conran and Judith Krantz.

The Managing Director from 1968 to 1995 was William Armstrong, the company and Armstrong were said to have encouraged individuality and entrepreneurship among its staff. Armstrong was also the father of the singer Dido.

Subject interests

  • Commercial and popular non-fiction.
  • High-profile biography.
  • History of popular culture.
  • Sidgwick Military list: supported in association with the Imperial War Museum and National Army Museum.
  • References

    Sidgwick & Jackson Wikipedia