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{{Short description|British publisher (1945–2001)}}
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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 =
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2001|02|26|1945|03|20|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Kendal]], [[Cumbria]], England
| nationality =
| 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="
==Education==
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]]
==Career==
In 1970, Lincoln started work as an Assistant Editor at the [[London]]-based 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 (trade name)|imprint]].{{fact|date=October 2020}}▼
▲In 1970, Lincoln started work as an Assistant Editor at the [[London]]-based 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 (trade name)|imprint]].
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.{{fact|date=October 2020}} 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".{{fact|date=October 2020}})▼
▲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
==Frances Lincoln 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. Nicoll later headed [[Yale University Press]] in the 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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[[Category:People educated at St George's School, Harpenden]]
[[Category:Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford]]
[[Category:20th-century English
[[Category:20th-century English businesspeople]]
[[Category:Publishers (people) from London]]
[[Category:English book publishers (people)]]
[[Category:Deaths from pneumonia in England]]
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