Cecilia Featherstonehaugh

Posh publisher

THE TIDES OF DIVERSITY AND inclusion started to break on the fine old firm of Cranston & Tackaberry about a decade ago. Curiously, they seem to have had no effect at all on the career of Cecilia Featherstonehaugh (“It’s pronounced Fanshawe, darling”), whose ascent to the heights of editorial director has been achieved in spite of the considerable disadvantages of a cut-glass accent, an education that took in a prep school attended by the Princes of Wales (“Willy was rather a chum”), St Mary’s Convent, Wantage and Somerville College, Oxford, and a grandfather who happens to be the Earl of Uttoxeter. Neither has the firm’s stated aim of producing “books for the modern age to be read by citizens of the world” had much impact on the kind of items…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, August/September 2024

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