Otto Kyllmann

Otto Kyllmann (died 1958) was a publisher, who held a senior directorship of Constable & Co from 1909 until 1950.

Kyllmann's first wife was Victoria Mary Louise Adelaide Cunliffe-Owen, the sister of Mary Wills (DBE), but they were divorced and she remarried in 1919. His second marriage also ended in divorce.

Kyllman subsequently had a very close relationship with the scholar Helen Waddell, several of whose books were published by Constable. Knowing Waddell to be short of money, he offered her permanent employment at Constable^[1] Other protégés of Kyllman included George Bernard Shaw, Mary Johnston, May Sinclair and Marie Corelli. A collection of Kyllmann's correspondence, dated between 1900 and 1957, is held by Queen's University, Belfast.^[2], having been donated by Helen Waddell's niece after Waddell's death.

References

1. ^ Felicitas Corrigan, Helen Waddell: a Life
2. ^ Otto Kyllmann Collection

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