Greening & Co. Ltd.

Project Gutenberg credits Greening & Co. as the author of Books Worth Reading and reproduces it as a 1901 seasonal catalogue of the firm's new and forthcoming titles. The catalogue identifies the publisher as Greening & Co., Ltd., based at 20 Cecil Court, Charing Cross Road, London.

That means this name on the title page refers to a publisher's imprint, not to an individual author with a personal life story. In this case, the most useful background is about the company itself: a London house active around the turn of the 20th century, publishing fiction, criticism, poetry, and literary studies.

For listeners, that gives the work a special charm. Instead of hearing one person's voice, you're getting a curated window into what a British publisher thought readers should discover in 1901—complete with the mix of confidence, variety, and literary enthusiasm that made publisher catalogues so revealing.