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Early life and education. Born in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, the fourth child of journalist Rudolph Lehmann, and brother of Helen Lehmann, novelist Rosamond Lehmann and actress Beatrix Lehmann, he was educated at Eton and read English at Trinity College, Cambridge.
John Lehmann was an English poet, editor, publisher, and man of letters whose book-periodical New Writing and its successors were an important influence on English literature from the mid-1930s through the 1940s.
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Showing 'Orpheus and the Muses' (1942), a tapestry by Lucien Coutaud (1904–1977), published by John Lehmann (1907–1987), 1948. Lehmann saw the new journal as an opportunity to do something 'typographically more pleasing... more richly embellished and more adequately illustrated'. This change in format mirrored an editorial desire to seek ...
Rudolf John Frederick Lehmann was an English publisher, poet and man of letters. He founded the periodicals New Writing and The London Magazine, and the publishing house of John Lehmann Limited.
One of the outstanding editors of this century, John Lehmann founded New Writing and London Magazine as well as other literary journals. He also wrote poems, tw... Front Matter
His works include Collected Poems 1930–63 (1963); three volumes of autobiography record a life rich in literary friendships and activity, as do his several volumes of reminiscence and biography, which include works on the Sitwells (1968), the Woolfs, and R. Brooke (1980). From: Lehmann, John in The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature »
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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, Dec 15, 1987 - Literary Criticism - 166 pages. One of the outstanding editors of this century, John Lehmann founded New Writing and London Magazine as well as other...
