RA Collection: People and Organisations
`Lawrence Wishart was formed in 1936, as a result of a merger between Martin Lawrence, the Communist Party press, and Wishart Limited, a family owned liberal and anti-fascist publisher. The new press was soon immersed in the political and cultural life of the Popular Front, publishing literature, drama and poetry, as well as political economy, working-class history and the classics of Marxism. New Writing, a twice-yearly LW anthology, published writers such as W.H. Auden, Ralph Fox, Christopher Isherwood and Cecil Day Lewis. [publisher's website].