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2 unusual facts about J. M. Dent


Edward Payson Dutton

In 1906 Dutton struck what proved to be a significant deal with the English publishing company of J. M. Dent to be the American distributor of the Everyman's Library series of classic literature reprints.

True Davidson

Davidson wrote children's books and for a time worked for textbook publisher J.M. Dent and Sons as a salesperson, visiting school boards across the country.


Ellen Marriage

A. R. Waller, a critic who was a neighbour of the Marriage family, suggested she do translations when he proposed to the London publisher J. M. Dent that his firm embark on the first complete edition of Balzac's immense novel cycle La Comédie humaine.

Frederick B. Dent

From 1958 until 1972 and 1977 until 1988, Dent was the president of Mayfair Mills in Arcadia, South Carolina.

Margaret Bent

Her awards include the Royal Musical Association’s Dent medal, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship, the F. Ll. Harrison medal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, the Claude V. Palisca award of the American Musicological Society, and honorary doctorates from the universities of Glasgow, Notre Dame and Montréal.

St Andrew's Church, Dent

The stained glass in the east window depicts the Te Deum.


see also

The Queen of Drum

The Queen of Drum is a narrative poem by C.S. Lewis published by J.M. Dent in 1969, post-humously by Lewis' trustee and literary adviser Walter Hooper.