Wildwood House
Wildwood House was a book publishing company in London, England, founded in 1972 by Oliver Caldecott and Dieter Pevsner, who had both worked at Penguin Books, leaving to set up the new publishing venture. The company was based in Floral Street, Covent Garden. House published "an eclectic list that included JP Donleavy and Studs Terkel.
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Wildwood House was a book publishing company in London, England, founded in 1972 by Oliver Caldecott and Dieter Pevsner, who had both worked at Penguin Books, leaving to set up the new publishing venture. The company was based in Floral Street, Covent Garden. House published "an eclectic list that included JP Donleavy and Studs Terkel.
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Wildwood also introduced Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury cartoon strips to the UK by publishing The People's Doonesbury in 1981, and acted as an early distribution outlet for Virago, the feminist publishing house."
Oliver Caldecott (1925–1989), who had been chief editor of fiction at Penguin, was married to writer Moyra Caldecott and they had three children. Dieter Pevsner (1932–2019), whose father was architectural historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, had been editorial director in charge of Penguin's non-fiction Pelican editions, and had three children with his wife Florence.
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- 1.Caldecott, Moyra. Oliver Caldecott 1925-1989. Moyra Caldecott: author, poet, artist. 28 January 2009.
- 2.Those were the Days – Some reflections on 35 years in Publishing. By my father, Oliver Caldecott. somelikeithotlodeve. 10 July 2017.
- 3.Elkington, Elaine. Two lovely men. 8 July 2020.
- 4.Pevsner, Mark. Dieter Pevsner obituary. The Guardian. 3 October 2019.
- 5.Manwaring, Kevan. Moyra Caldecott obituary. The Guardian. 8 June 2015.
- 6.Newsletter. Penguin Collectors Society.
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