page_title: Phyllis Hartnoll
hierarchical_section_title: Phyllis Hartnoll
caption_attribution_description: English: THE AUTHOR Phyllis Hartnoll (1906-1997) was an English poet, theater historian, and editor for the publishing house of Macmillan. Born in Egypt in 1906, she was educated first at Cheltenham Ladies' College, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, and moving on to read English at St Hugh&#39;s College, Oxford. She also attended the Universities of Lyon and Algiers. She won the Newdigate Prize for poetry in 1929 and was a founding member of Society for Theatre Research in 1948. She also provided the introduction to GCP's editon of Zastrozzi by Percy Bysse Shelley (1956). As a theater historian, she edited the Oxford Companion to the Theatre first published in 1951 and still in print. My thanks to good ol' Wikipedia for the biographical information above. THE BOOK Published April, 1952 . THE GRECIAN ENCHANTED. By Phyllis Hartnoll. 8 aquatints by John Buckland Wright. 96 pages, 12 ¾ x 7 ½ inches. Caslon Old Face 18 pt type with Imprint Shadow titling. 360 copies printed in black, grey, pink and blue on mould-made paper. 60 signed copies in grey and pink moroccos, with a second set of the aquatints and one extra. 300 copies in pink and blue-grey fabrics (this is the one I have). ( Cock-a-Hoop No.189)
context_page_description: Phyllis Hartnoll was a British poet, author and editor.
  Hartnoll was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College and read English at St Hugh's College, Oxford, winning the Newdigate Prize for poetry in 1929, and at the Universities of Lyons and Algiers. From 1929 to 1967, she worked as a books editor for the publishers Macmillan. As a theatre historian, she was a founder member of the Society for Theatre Research in 1948; the other founders contributed to her Oxford Companion to the Theatre, the first edition of which appeared in 1951.
  A collection of her poems, The maid's song and other poems, was published by Macmillan in 1938. She wrote the introduction to the Gothic novel Zastrozzi by Percy Bysshe Shelley which was republished in a limited edition by the Golden Cockerel Press in 1955.
context_section_description: Phyllis Hartnoll (22 September 1906, in Egypt – 8 January 1997, in Lyme Regis) was a British poet, author and editor.
  Hartnoll was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College and read English at St Hugh's College, Oxford, winning the Newdigate Prize for poetry in 1929, and at the Universities of Lyons and Algiers. From 1929 to 1967, she worked as a books editor for the publishers Macmillan. As a theatre historian, she was a founder member of the Society for Theatre Research in 1948; the other founders contributed to her Oxford Companion to the Theatre, the first edition of which appeared in 1951.
  A collection of her poems, The maid's song and other poems, was published by Macmillan in 1938. She wrote the introduction to the Gothic novel Zastrozzi by Percy Bysshe Shelley which was republished in a limited edition by the Golden Cockerel Press in 1955.
caption: The Grecian Enchanted by Phyllis Hartnoll (published April, 1952)
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