Trent Editions

The publishing arm of Nottingham Trent University, Trent Editions was founded in 1998. For the past 20 years we have sought to enrich the literary landscape by making innovative, radical and culturally significant works accessible to new audiences in handsome print editions.

We recover texts from neglected writers, including the first novel by an African-American woman, Harriett Wilson’s Our Nig. We have worked with poetry and prose works by working-class writers like John Clare, Ethel Carnie Holdsworth. In addition, postcolonial texts by authors such as Alex La Guma and Cornelia Sorabji - all presented with critical introductions by leading scholars in the field.

Our specialist interests include, but are in no way restricted to:

• Radical fiction and poetry
• World literature and postcolonial writing
• American fiction
• Women's fiction and non-fiction
• Modernism and interwar writing
• Local and regional writing
• Texts that are significant to the history and development of working-class, radical and popular print culture
• Other important printed texts that have existed on the cultural margins

We accept book proposals all year round. If you would like to submit a proposal please fill out this form and email your completed proposal to trenteditions@ntu.ac.uk

Our Titles

We have several existing and emerging specialist interests:

Laura (Riding) Jackson’s life and works

Series Editor: Mark Jacobs

• A Close Chaplet (2018) by Laura Riding (ed. Mark Jacobs)
• Poet: A Lying Word (2017) by Laura Riding (ed. Jack Blackmore)
• The Person I Am (Volume One) (2011) by Laura (Riding) Jackson (eds. John Nolan and Carroll Ann Friedmann)
• The Person I Am (Volume Two) (2011) by Laura (Riding) Jackson (eds. John Nolan and Carroll Ann Friedmann)
• The Person I Am (Volume One and Two) (2011) by Laura (Riding) Jackson

American Recoveries: Key texts from the cultural memory of North America

• Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (2000) by Stephen Crane (ed. Christopher Gair)
• Hawthorne (1999) by Henry James (ed. Kate Fullbrook)
• Our Nig (1998) by Harriet E. Wilson (ed. R. J. Ellis)

Radical Fictions: Recovering radical novels and innovative fiction, with an emphasis on writers of the British Isles

• This Slavery (2011) by Ethel Carnie Holdsworth (ed. Nicola Wilson)
• In The Second Year (2004) by Storm Jameson (ed. Sam Smith)
• Harris’ Requiem (2006) by Stanley Middleton (ed. David Belbin)
• The Croquet Player (1998) by H.G Wells (ed. John Hammond)
• Clash (2004) by Ellen Wilkinson (ed. Ian Haywood and Maroula Joannou)

Poetry Recoveries: Reconnecting poets to their own time and ours

• Poems (1998) by William Barnes (ed. Valerie Shepherd)
• Selected Poems, revised and enlarged edition (2007) by Robert Bloomfield (ed. John Goodridge and John Lucas)
• Selected Poetry (2003) by Charles Churchill (ed. Adam Rounce)
• The Living Year 1841 (1999) by John Clare (ed. Tim Chilcott)
• Poems (2005) by Nancy Cunard (ed. John Lucas)
• Selected Poetry and Prose (2000) by John Dyer (ed. John Goodridge)
• Beaumaris Bay (2016) and Other Poems (2016) by Richard Llywd (ed. Elizabeth Edwards)
• Selected Poems (2000) by Randall Swingler (ed. Andy Croft)
• Selected Poems (2003) by Frank Thompson (ed. Dorothy and Kate Thompson)

Postcolonial Writings: Radical voices of the colonial past, speaking to the postcolonial present

• Selected Writings of a Pioneer West African Feminist (2004) by Mabel Dove (ed. Stephanie Newell and Audrey Gadsekpo)
• Selections from ‘Bengaliana’ (2005) by Shoshee Chunder Dutt (ed Alex Tickell)
• India Calling (2004) by Cornelia Sorabji (ed. Elleke Boehmer and Naella Grew)
• A Walk in the Night (2006) by Alex La Guma (ed. Nahem Yousaf)

Radical Recoveries: Key texts in the history and development of working-class, radical and popular print culture

• Exhibition Extraordinary!! Radical Broadsheets of the Mid-1790s (2001) by (ed) John Barrell
• Political Writings of William Fox (eds. John Barrell and Timothy Whelan)
• The Collected George Garrett (1999) by George Garrett (ed. Michael Murphy)
• A Chronicle of Small Beer (2005) by Nan Green (ed. R.J. Ellis)
• A Passion for Justice (2003) by Joe Kenyon (ed. David Donnison)
• Tales for the Common People (2002) by Hannah More (ed. Clare Macdonald Shaw)
• Romantic Era Shipwreck Narratives (2007) by (ed) Carl Thompson

Trent Essays: Writers on the Craft of Writing

• A Writer’s Daybook (2006) by Ronald Blythe
• Talking About John Clare (1999) by Ronald Blythe
• Beats, Bohemians and Intellectuals (2000) by Jim Burns (ed. John Freeman)
• Starting to Explain: Essays on Twentieth Century British and Irish Poetry (2003) by John Lucas
• A John Clare Flora (2016) by M. M. Mahood
• Saving From the Wreck (2001) by Peter Porter 
• The Myth of the last Taboo (2016) by Gregory Woods

Early Modern Writing: Recovering radical manuscript and printed texts from the cultural margins

• The ‘Centuries’ of Julia Palmer (2001) by Julia Palmer (ed. Victoria Burke and Elizabeth Clarke)
• Scripture Women (2005) by Rose Thurgood and Cicely Johnson (ed. Naomi Baker)

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Editorial Director: Professor Andrew Thacker

Email: TrentEditions@ntu.ac.uk

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