Barrie & Jenkins was a small British publishing house that was formed in 1964 from the merger of the companies Herbert Jenkins (founded by English writer
Herbert George Jenkins) and Barrie & Rockliff (whose managing director was Leopold Ullstein and whose editorial staff included John Bunting and John Pattison).[1] Barrie & Rockcliff was itself the result of the merger in the 1950s of James Barrie Books, founded in 1947 by James Barrie[2] whose great-uncle and godfather had been the playwright
J. M. Barrie, and of the Rockliff Publishing Corporation, which was "known for its theatre list".[3]
One of the most notable authors of Barrie & Jenkins was
P. G. Wodehouse, whose titles came from the Herbert Jenkins portfolio of writers [4] which in the 1920s included authors such as
Mrs Hungerford,
Edna Lyall,
W. Riley and
Winifred Boggs. The Barrie Group eventually comprised Barrie & Rockliff, the
Cresset Press, Herbert Jenkins, and Hammond & Hammond.[3]
Barrie & Jenkins had a short commercial history and was taken over by
Hutchinson, which was itself taken over by
Century and then by
Random House (now owned by
Bertelsmann).
Barrie & Jenkins continues to exist as a specialist imprint mainly for hardback editions within the Random House stable.
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abjoint venture with Amperwelle Studio München Programmanbietergesellschaft,
Axel Springer AG, Burda, Studio Gong, m.b.t. Mediengesellschaft der bayerischen Tageszeitungen für Kabelkommunikation, Medienpool and Radio Bavaria Rundfunkprogrammgesellschaft.
^joint venture with Axel Springer, Heinrich Bauer Verlag, Lühmanndruck Harburger Zeitungsgesellschaft and Morgenpost Verlag.