Gerald Duckworth

Gerald de l'Etang Duckworth (29 October 1870 – 28 September 1937) was an English publisher, who founded the London company that bears his name.

Gerald and his elder brother George were later accused by Virginia and Vanessa of sexually abusing them when they were children and teenagers.

In his first year, 1898–1899, he published Henry James's In the Cage; Leslie Stephen's English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century; Jocelyn by John Sinjohn, a pseudonym of John Galsworthy; a translation of August Strindberg's Der Vater; and Mother Goose in Prose, the first children's book by L. Frank Baum, and the first book illustrated by Maxfield Parrish.

(Baum's most famous work, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, was published in Chicago a year later.)

In 1929, Galsworthy was shocked that Duckworth required him to sign all 1,250 copies of a limited edition of his collected plays.

His sister Stella (1869–1897) married John Waller Hills, but died three months later.