Linda Schwartz writes: “I attended the launch party in London for the British Library’s Women in Publishing Oral Archive in April last year. I had been invited, along with the other founding committee members, for individual interviews at the British Library to form an oral archive about starting WIP and what it was like for women working in British book publishing in the ’70s and ’80s. We had wanted to start a network to help women move up in book publishing. Back then, there were very few women in management positions in relation to their numbers in the industry. This is improved now. The oral archive is stored at the British Library and online (http://www.womeninpublishinghistory.org.uk/). In London I started as a secretary at Hamish Hamilton Ltd., then moved into design and production at Heinemann Medical Books Ltd., and finally was the senior production manager at Hutchinson Ltd. I started my own small publishing company, Poplar Press Ltd., while still at Hutchinson. I left Hutchinson to run this full-time and eventually sold the company to David and Charles Ltd. when we moved from London to Spain. I’m retired from publishing and live with my husband, three donkeys, one horse, and four cats on our farm in Southern Spain.” Contact Linda at [email protected].
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Class of 1971