In the biographies of English authors of the 19th and 20th centuries, we, as a rule, find information about who and under what circumstances published their first works and thereby contributed to their creative debut. Thus, many names become “heard of,” but we usually know little about the characters who bore them, and being far from the corresponding cultural processes, we do not strive to find out more. Here is the brand of the very famous British publishing house Allen & Unwin - do you care who they are? And we are not at all interested in the staff of the publishing house, even the most venerable one. However, it is often worth asking about this. In large British publishing houses, an important role was assigned to an employee, whom we would call a permanent...