Eunice Frost

OBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding valuable service in a wide range of useful activities. It comprises five classes of awards across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two o ...

(5 November 1914 – 12 August 1998), was a British publisher. She started in 1936, working for

Penguin Books Penguin Books Limited is a Germany, German-owned English publishing, publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Allen Lane with his brothers Richard and John, as a line of the publishers the Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the ...

, as secretary to co-founder

Allen Lane Sir Allen Lane (born Allen Lane Williams; 21 September 1902 – 7 July 1970) was a British publisher who together with his brothers Richard and John Lane founded Penguin Books in 1935, bringing high-quality paperback fiction and non-fictio ...

, but soon was promoted to editor, and eventually a director of the company.

Biography

Frost was born on 5 November 1914. In 1938, she began working at Penguin Books, which had been founded two years earlier, as a secretary. While working there, Lane would send her out to "deal with his difficulties," hiring and firing employees and handling issues for him. In 1941, Frost set up the American branch of Penguin Books in New York. She was known as "Frostie" by her colleagues. Frost retired in the 1960s due to ill health. Frost died in Lewes, East Sussex on 12 August 1998.

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