Scholars, reviewers, and librarians have reacted positively
to ELT Press and its 1880–1920 British Authors series.

Says Choice:  "This important series draws attention to writers who have fallen into relative obscurity for reasons that have nothing to do with their stature.... Highly recommended."

FIFTY-THREE YEARS AGO, Professor Helmut E. Gerber recognized the need for a journal that would focus attention on late-Victorian and early-twentieth-century British writers. He founded English Literature in Transition, 1880–1920.

ELT Press, founded in 1988, complements ELT, offering book-length studies on turn-of-the-century British writers. As scholars and librarians know, publishers readily print titles that feature the names Joyce, Conrad, Yeats, or Woolf. This neglects a host of important British authors regarded as essential to the study of the Transition era and modern literary history.

The 1880–1920 British Authors series continues to make available critical, biographical, bibliographical, and primary works on Transition authors. Twenty-four volumes have been published in the series.

We are interested in considering manuscripts on authors or topics tied to the 1880–1920 era of British literature. We do not publish books on W. B. Yeats, Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, or D. H. Lawrence unless these major authors are linked to lesser-known figures of the period.

If you have a manuscript you think may be of interest to ELT Press, please send an e–mail to Robert Langenfeld. Describe your work. We will respond directly.

Once a manuscript is sent out for peer review, the decision follows in 2–3 months. Publication is customarily 8–12 months after acceptance.