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Greening & Co. Ltd.
An energetic London publisher rather than a single author, this imprint helped bring late Victorian and Edwardian fiction, drama, poetry, and popular literature to readers on both sides of the British Empire. It is especially remembered for backing lively commercial titles and for publishing early editions of works such as The Scarlet Pimpernel.
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About the author
Greening & Co. Ltd. was a London publishing house founded by Arthur Greening in the late 1890s. Before starting the firm, Greening had worked in journalism and theatre circles, and that mix of business sense and showmanship shaped the list the company became known for.
The firm published a wide range of books, from fiction and poetry to drama, criticism, and travel, and it appears in library records as the publisher of many authors from the period. It is often noted today because Greening issued editions of popular works in the years around 1900, including material connected with Baroness Orczy and other well-known writers of the day.
For audiobook listeners, the name is best understood as a historical publisher's imprint: a doorway into the tastes of turn-of-the-century readers, when publishers often played a big role in discovering, packaging, and popularizing new books. Because this is a company rather than an individual author, a standard author portrait is not really available.