Poetic Obituaries: With her husband, George, and with minimal

resources or experience, she [Jean Hartley] had founded and co-edited the magazine Listen, attracting contributions from Kingsley Amis, Donald Davie, Robert Conquest, Al Alvarez, John Wain and Larkin.

The Hartleys then set up the Marvell Press in Hull. It was named after the poet Andrew Marvell, who had been born near Hull, and was also a pun on their belief that it would be a "bloody marvel" if it ever took off. It did, however, when The Less Deceived attracted enormous popular and critical attention, even if Larkin's subsequent volumes of poetry and prose were published by Faber & Faber.

from Telegraph: Jean Hartley

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