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Methuen is a British literary publisher. It was founded in 1889 by Sir Algernon Methuen (1856–1924). The essayist E. V. Lucas was the director from 1924 to 1938. Before 1914 the main authors were Rudyard Kipling, Marie Corelli, Hilaire Belloc, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Oscar Wilde and Edgar Rice Burroughs.
E. V. Lucas recruited A. A. Milne, Kenneth Grahame, Anthony Hope, G. K. Chesterton, Henry James, D. H. Lawrence, T. S. Eliot, Ruth Manning-Sanders and the illustrators W. Heath Robinson, H. M. Bateman and E. H. Shepard.
The imprint still exists. It published some books on music and song books between 1900 and 1930
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