Sheed and Ward
Sheed and Ward is a publishing house founded in London in 1926 by Catholic activists Frank Sheed and Maisie Ward. The head office was moved to New York in 1933. The United States assets of Sheed and Ward have been owned by Rowman & Littlefield since 2002, and those in the United Kingdom are owned by Bloomsbury Publishing.
Sheed and Ward
- Name
- Sheed and Ward
- Founded
- 1926
- Founder
- Frank Sheed · Maisie Ward
- Headquarters
- United States
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Sheed and Ward is a publishing house founded in London in 1926 by Catholic activists Frank Sheed and Maisie Ward. The head office was moved to New York in 1933. The United States assets of Sheed and Ward have been owned by Rowman & Littlefield since 2002, and those in the United Kingdom are owned by Bloomsbury Publishing.
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In 2022 Rowman & Littlefield began acquiring books under the Sheed & Ward brand again.
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• Name — Sheed and Ward • Parent — Rowman & Littlefield • Founded — 1926 • Founders — Frank Sheed and Maisie Ward • Country — UK • Publications — Books • Topics — Catholic literature • Website — https: rowman.com
History
History
Sheed and Ward published a number of major Roman Catholic authors of the 1920s through to the mid-twentieth century, including G. K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, Christopher Dawson, Vincent McNabb, Leo J. Trese, Ronald Knox and Etienne Gilson. In the early 1930s Sheed and Ward operated the Catholic Book a Month Club. In 1973, Sheed and Ward was acquired by the Universal Press Syndicate; the company was used as the base of the publisher Andrews McMeel. However, the Sheed and Ward name and backlist were later divested. The company was owned by the National Catholic Reporter from 1986 to 1998, when it was sold to the Priests of the Sacred Heart. The United States assets were acquired by Rowman & Littlefield in 2002, and the United Kingdom assets by the Continuum International Publishing Group, which has since been subsumed into Bloomsbury Publishing. The company archives of the New York office from 1933 to 1977 are kept at the University of Notre Dame.
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- 1.Wenner, Emma. R&L's Religion Editor is Running at Full Speed. Publishers Weekly. 25 May 2022.
- 2.Stevens, Annie E. American literary publishing houses, 1900-1980. Gale Research Company. 46. 337–339. 1986. 0-8103-1724-9.
- 3.McMeel, John P. Publishing Books. Transaction Publishers. 41–47. 1997-01-01. 978-1-4128-3251-9.
- 4.Inside NCR: Sheed & Ward, Credence Cassettes sold.
- 5.Jim Milliot, "Rowman & Littlefield Buys Sheed & Ward", Publishers Weekly, July 15, 2002.
- 6.University of Notre Dame. Sheed & Ward Records. Notre Dame Archives Inventory.
- 7."Thomas More Medal Awarded to Doubleday", The Virginian-Pilot, 65 May 1955, p. 15.
- 8."Books for Lent", Birmingham Evening Mail and Despatch, 3 March 1964, p. 6.
- 9.Unicorn Books, seriesofseries.com. Retrieved 2 December 2022.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 3
- Maisie Ward, Unfinished Business (history of Sheed & Ward), published by Sheed & Ward, 1964.
- Mary Jo Weaver (2003). Sheed & Ward. U.S. Catholic Historian 21 (3): 1–18
- Carole Sargent (2026). "Sheed & Ward: the unlikely power couple who revolutionized Catholic publishing". America. March 10, 2026.
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