U.K.-U.S. publisher
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 . In 2022 Rowman & Littlefield began acquiring books under the Sheed & Ward brand again.[ 1]
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 .[ 2] [ 3] National Catholic Reporter from 1986 to 1998, when it was sold to the Priests of the Sacred Heart .[ 4] Rowman & Littlefield in 2002, and the United Kingdom assets by the Continuum International Publishing Group ,[ 5] Bloomsbury Publishing . The company archives of the New York office from 1933 to 1977 are kept at the University of Notre Dame .[ 6]
Book series
American Benedictine Academy Studies
Ark Library
The Bernardin Center Series
Boston College Church in the 21st Century Series
Canterbury Books
Capuchin Classics
Catholic Masterpiece Tutorial Series
Catholic Masters
Come & See Series
Dogma
Essays in Order
Exploring Scripture Series
Great Religious Composers
Hart Library
Heythrop Series
Lectio Divina Series
Makers of Christendom[ 7]
Mysticism and Modern Man Series
Newman History and Philosophy of Science Series
New Testament for Spiritual Reading
New World Chesterton
Pastoral Ministry Series
Permanent Chesterton
Perspectives on Work, Welfare and Society Series
Prayer and Practice
Reader's Theatre
Readings in Bioethics Series
The Saints in Pictures
Sheed & Ward Catholic Studies
Sheed & Ward Classic series
Spirit at Work Series
Spiritual Masters
Stagbooks[ 8]
St. Michael's Mediaeval Studies: Monograph Series
Studies in Anthropology and Comparative Religion
Theologians Today
Theological Meditations
Twelvepenny Series
Unicorn Books[ 9]
Writers of the World
References
^ Wenner, Emma (25 May 2022). "R&L's Religion Editor is Running at Full Speed" . Publishers Weekly . ^ Stevens, Annie E. (1986). "Sheed and Ward" . In Peter Dzwonkoski (ed.). American literary publishing houses, 1900-1980 . Dictionary of literary biography. Vol. 46. Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research Company. pp. 337–339 . ISBN 0-8103-1724-9 ^ McMeel, John P. (1 January 1997). "A Voice from the Heartland - Alive and Well, Thank You". In Everette E. Dennis; Craig L. LaMay; Edward C. Pease (eds.). Publishing Books . Transaction Publishers. pp. 41–47. ISBN 978-1-4128-3251-9 ^ "Inside NCR: Sheed & Ward, Credence Cassettes sold" . Retrieved 31 March 2018 .^ Jim Milliot, "Rowman & Littlefield Buys Sheed & Ward ", Publishers Weekly
^ "Sheed & Ward Records" . Notre Dame Archives Inventory . University of Notre Dame. Retrieved 7 June 2016 .^ "Thomas More Medal Awarded to Doubleday", The Virginian-Pilot
^ "Books for Lent", Birmingham Evening Mail and Despatch
^ Unicorn Books , seriesofseries.com. Retrieved 2 December 2022.
Further reading
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 JSTOR 25154864
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