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{{Short description|British publisher (1945–2001)}}
'''Frances Elisabeth Rosemary Lincoln''' (20 March 1945 – 26 February 2001) was an [[England|English]] independent [[publisher]] of illustrated [[books]]. She won a ''[[Woman of the Year (award)|Woman of the Year]]'' award in 1995.
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{{Infobox person
| name = Frances Lincoln
| image = Frances Lincoln.jpg
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| birth_name = Frances Elisabeth Rosemary Lincoln
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1945|03|20|df=y}}
| birth_place = London, England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2001|02|26|1945|03|20|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Kendal]], [[Cumbria]], England
| nationality = British
| occupation = Book publisher
| known_for = [[Frances Lincoln Publishers]]; ''Woman of the Year for Services to Multicultural Publishing'' (1995)
}}
 
'''Frances Elisabeth Rosemary Lincoln''' (20 March 1945 – 26 February 2001) was an English independent publisher of illustrated books.<ref name="Girouard 2001">{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/mar/02/guardianobituaries.books1 | title=Frances Lincoln | first=Mark | last=Girouard | newspaper=[[The Guardian]] | date=2 March 2001 }}</ref><ref name="independent">{{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/frances-lincoln-728911.html | title=Frances Lincoln | newspaper=[[The Independent]] | first=Yvonne | last=Whiteman | date=6 March 2001 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207134649/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/frances-lincoln-728911.html | archive-date=7 February 2009 }}</ref> She published under her own name and the company went on to become [[Frances Lincoln Publishers]]. In 1995, Lincoln won the ''Woman of the Year for Services to Multicultural Publishing'' award.<ref name="Girouard 2001" />
 
==Education==
She went to school at [[St George's School, Harpenden]] where she became [[Head Girl]].
 
Frances Lincoln went "unhappily"<ref name="Girouard 2001"/> to school in [[Bedford]], moving after a year to [[St George's School, Harpenden]], where she became [[Head Girl]].<ref name="Girouard 2001"/> Her university education was at [[Somerville College]], [[Oxford]]. (Somerville at that time was a women's college, known in [[Oxford]] as "the [[bluestocking]] college".). There she read [[Greats]] (the Oxford term for traditional courses in the humanities, with emphasis on the ancient classics of Greece and Rome, including philosophy).<ref name="Girouard 2001"/> A fellow-student, the drug smuggler [[Howard Marks]], described her as "vivacious" in his 1996 autobiography ''[[Mr. Nice (book)|Mr. Nice]]''.<ref>{{cite book| title=[[Mr. Nice (book)|Mr. Nice]] | first=Howard | last=Marks | author-link=Howard Marks | publisher=[[Secker & Warburg]] | date=1996 | isbn=978-0-436-20305-3 }}</ref>
 
The drug smuggler [[Howard Marks]] was a student at [[Balliol College, Oxford]] while Frances was at Somerville. In his autobiography ''[[Mr. Nice]]'' he describes her as "vivacious". The book contains an anecdote of Marks dropping acid for the first time before visiting Frances in her rooms. While they sat listening to [[The Rolling Stones]], Marks described to her the trip he was experiencing.
 
==Career==
In 1970 she started work as an Assistant Editor at the London publishing firm of Studio Vista. She went on to become its Managing Director. From Studio Vista she moved to a job with the publisher [[Marshall Cavendish]], and from there to [[Orion Publishing Group|Weidenfeld and Nicolson]], where she was given her own imprint.▼
 
▲In 1970, sheLincoln started work as an Assistant Editor at the [[London]]-based publishing firm of [[Studio Vista]]. She went on to become its Managingmanaging Directordirector. From Studio Vista, she moved to a job with the publisher [[Marshall Cavendish]], and from there to [[Orion Publishing Group|Weidenfeld and Nicolson]], where she was given her own [[Imprint (trade name)|imprint]].<ref name="Girouard 2001"/>
A story that followed her throughout her career, often passed on from employees to new recruits, was of the staff-walkout and demonstration she headed while at Studio Vista in 1975. This was a protest against redundancies proposed by [[Collier Macmillan]], the firm that had come to own Studio Vista. The protest went on for a number of days, and is described as a strike. It achieved concessions from [[Collier Macmillan]]. (The story itself is striking for the incongruity between the shy and reserved bluestocking figure of Frances Lincoln, and the tale's casting of her in the role of "strike leader".)▼
 
▲A story that followed her throughout her career, often passed on from employees to new recruits, was of the staff-walkout and demonstration she headed while at Studio Vista in 1975. This was a protest against redundancies proposed by [[Collier Macmillan]], the firm that had come to own Studio Vista. The protest went on for a number ofsome days, and iswas described as a strike.; Itit achieved concessions from [[Collier Macmillan]].<ref (The story itself is striking for the incongruity between the shy and reserved bluestocking figure of Frances Lincoln, and the tale's casting of her in the role of name="strikeGirouard leader2001".)/>
In 1977 Frances went out on her own as an independent publisher/packager, publishing both under her own name and in co-editions. The firm she founded continues as [[Frances Lincoln Publishers]], based in London.<ref name="about-us">[http://www.franceslincoln.co.uk/en-gb/Page/81/About_Us.html About Us], [[Frances Lincoln Publishers]], UK.</ref> The firm is known for the list of illustrated gardening books it publishes, and for the illustrated children's books that it began publishing from 1983, many of which have won awards and prizes. In Frances's time, her firm was notable for employing an almost exclusively female staff.
 
==Frances Lincoln died from [[pneumonia]] at age 55 in 2001.Publishers==
 
In 1977, Frances went out on her own as an independent publisher/packager, publishing both under her own name and in co-editions. The firm she founded continued as Frances Lincoln Publishers, based in London, until 2018.<ref name="about-us">{{cite web| url=http://www.franceslincoln.com/About%20Us | title=About Us | website=franceslincoln.com | date=2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100213080345/http://www.franceslincoln.com/About%20Us | access-date=9 October 2020 | archive-date=13 February 2010 }}</ref><ref name="Richardson 2018">{{cite news |last=Richardson |first=Tim |title=Frances Lincoln closure marks end of an era for cultivated garden writing |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/gardening-events/frances-lincoln-closure-marks-end-era-cultivated-garden-writing/ |access-date=22 October 2021 |date=10 February 2018}}</ref>
In August 2011, [[The Quarto Group]] acquired Frances Lincoln Publishers for £4.5 million,<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.thebookseller.com/news/quarto-snaps-frances-lincoln | title=Quarto Snaps-up Frances Lincoln | first=Graeme | last=Neill |work=The Bookseller |date=16 August 2011 | access-date=4 February 2016 }}</ref> making it the [[The Quarto Group#Imprints|''Frances Lincoln Children's Book'' imprint]]. The firm was known for the list of illustrated gardening books it published, and for its illustrated children's books.<ref name="Richardson 2018"/> Among these were David Litchfield's ''The Bear and the Piano'', which won the 2016 [[Waterstones]] Children's Book Prize for Illustrated Books,<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2016/mar/17/david-solomans-wins-waterstones-prize-with-superhero-story | title=David Solomons wins Waterstones prize with superhero story | last=Pauli | first=Michelle | date=17 March 2016 | newspaper=[[The Guardian]] }}</ref> and Lizzy Stewart's ''There's a Tiger in the Garden'', which won the same prize in 2017.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/30/waterstones-childrens-book-prize-kiran-millwood-hargraves-the-girl-of-ink-and-stars | title=Waterstones children's book prize goes to 'mesmerising' debut adventure story | last=Kean |first=Danuta |date=30 March 2017 | newspaper=[[The Guardian]] }}</ref>
 
==Family==
 
Frances Lincoln married John Nicoll, the author of the first book she had commissioned. (HeNicoll later headed [[Yale University Press]] in the UK)United Kingdom. The couple had a son and two daughters.<ref name="Girouard 2001"/> Lincoln died from [[pneumonia]] aged 55 in 2001.<ref name="Girouard 2001"/>
 
==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,445155,00.html Guardian newspaper obituary]
*[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/frances-lincoln-728911.html Independent newspaper obituary]
*[http://www.franceslincoln.com/ Frances Lincoln Publishers]
 
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