She wondered whether it would be appropriate to go on publishing frivolous, pleasure-giving books in wartime, but was assured by her publishers, Hodder and Stoughton
, that it was, and that they would need the...
Publishing
Edith Mary Moore
EMM
made yet another change of publisher when she issued her extraordinary novel Teddy R. N. D. through Hodder and Stoughton
, priced at five shillings.
For the first time in her career, EMM
used the same publisher again after several years: her novel The Blind Marksman (apparently her last) was issued by Hodder and Stoughton
at seven shillings and sixpence...
Publishing
Annie S. Swan
Sir William Robertson Nicoll
, friend of ASS
and power behind the The British Weekly: A Journal of Social and Christian Progress (which was published at London by Hodder and Stoughton
), proposed to her...
Publishing
Georgette Heyer
It was in this year that GH
signed contracts with Heinemann
for three historical romances and with Hodder and Stoughton
for four detective stories.
Haas, Lidija. “Wholly Allergic”. London Review of Books, Vol.
34
, No. 16, pp. 29-30.
29
This particular novel appeared in the United States as Merely Murder.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
191
Publishing
Ruby M. Ayres
Four years after her first novel, RMA
issued the first of her nearly 140 titles published in a highly successful working relationship with Hodder and Stoughton
, Richard Chatterton, V.C..
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Publishing
Ruby M. Ayres
In a year in which RMA
published no fewer than twelve novel titles in London through Hodder and Stoughton
, she also published in New York, through W. J. Watt
, The Uphill Road.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Publishing
Norah Lofts
This was published in London by Hodder and Stoughton
in 1958, but the US edition was the first to appear.
Publishing
Ruby M. Ayres
The Uphill Road does not seem to have appeared in England. One might suppose that Ayres chose this manner of publication because of her almost incredible productivity in this year. She continued to issue occasional...
Publishing
Emmuska, Baroness Orczy
The local post office refused to take it for delivery on its way to England, but (the USA being still a non-belligerent), she was able to send it to Washington through the good offices of...
Publishing
Jean Plaidy
She made this pseudonym by combining her two birthnames, Eleanor and Alice (or perhaps Eleanor as her own with Alice as her mother's), and then taking her mother's maiden name, Tate. She issued five more...
Publishing
Dorothy Whipple
This moment of inspiration (something she had had for Young Anne and They Knew Mr. Knight, but not for High Wages or The Priory) made her long to get writing.
Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph.