Sheed and Ward
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| founders = Frank Sheed and Maisie Ward
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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.{{Cite journal |last=Wenner |first=Emma |date=25 May 2022 |title=R&L's Religion Editor is Running at Full Speed |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/religion/article/89367-richard-brown-is-ramping-up-religion-books-at-r-l.html |journal=Publishers Weekly}}
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.{{Cite book| publisher = Gale Research Company| isbn = 0-8103-1724-9| volume = 46| pages = [https://archive.org/details/americanliterary0046unse/page/337 337–339]|editor1= Peter Dzwonkoski | last = Stevens| first = Annie E.| title = American literary publishing houses, 1900-1980 | chapter = Sheed and Ward| location = Detroit, Mich.| series = Dictionary of literary biography| date = 1986| chapter-url = https://archive.org/details/americanliterary0046unse/page/337}} However, the Sheed and Ward name and backlist were later divested.{{Cite book| publisher = Transaction Publishers| isbn = 978-1-4128-3251-9| pages = 41–47|editor1= Everette E. Dennis |editor2=Craig L. LaMay |editor3=Edward C. Pease | last = McMeel| first = John P.| title = Publishing Books| chapter = A Voice from the Heartland - Alive and Well, Thank You| date = 1997-01-01}} The company was owned by the National Catholic Reporter from 1986 to 1998, when it was sold to the Priests of the Sacred Heart.{{Cite web| title = Inside NCR: Sheed & Ward, Credence Cassettes sold| accessdate = 2018-03-31| url = http://www.natcath.org/NCR_Online/archives2/1998b/050898/050898b.htm}} The United States assets were acquired by Rowman & Littlefield in 2002, and the United Kingdom assets by the Continuum International Publishing Group,Jim Milliot, "[http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/20020715/18122-rowman-amp-littlefield-buys-sheed-amp-ward.html Rowman & Littlefield Buys Sheed & Ward]", Publishers Weekly, July 15, 2002. which has since been subsumed into Bloomsbury Publishing. The company archives of the New York office from 1933 to 1977 are kept at the University of Notre Dame.{{cite web | url=http://archives.nd.edu/findaids/ead/html/SAW.htm | title=Sheed & Ward Records | publisher=University of Notre Dame | work=Notre Dame Archives Inventory | accessdate=June 7, 2016}}
Book series
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- 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"Thomas More Medal Awarded to Doubleday", The Virginian-Pilot, 65 May 1955, p. 15.
- 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"Books for Lent", Birmingham Evening Mail and Despatch, 3 March 1964, p. 6.
- St. Michael's Mediaeval Studies: Monograph Series
- Studies in Anthropology and Comparative Religion
- Theologians Today
- Theological Meditations
- Twelvepenny Series
- Unicorn Books[https://seriesofseries.com/unicorn-books/ Unicorn Books], seriesofseries.com. Retrieved 2 December 2022.
- Writers of the World
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References
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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}}
External links
- [https://www.nytimes.com/1972/04/02/archives/frank-sheed-and-maisie-ward-writers-publishers-and-parents-frank.html Sheed, Wilfred. "The Good Word", The New York Times, April 2, 1972]
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Category:Book publishing companies based in New York (state)
Category:Publishing companies established in 1926
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