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.
The Hodder and Stoughton
reader's report was damning: a single characteristic, satire on a good Christian lady (the heroine's aunt), was in such bad taste as to doom the book to failure. CC
replied defiantly...
MS
took her title from a folk-song which runs: Madam, will you walk? /...
Publishing
Richmal Crompton
In a delicate tug-of-war, the editor of the first magazine to publish the William stories also accepted and paid for a number of short stories for adults written by RC
, some of which were...
Publishing
Mary Stewart
Having always wanted to write a historical novel, MS
later recalled that the idea for The Crystal Cave came from a story in an early history of King Arthur
: Geoffrey of Monmouth
's twelfth-century...
Reception
Beatrice Harraden
The book appeared in two editions this year: from BH
's new publisher, Hodder and Stoughton
, and from Tauchnitz
. So did her Rachel, 1926, and her final novel.
Reception
Margery Allingham
MA
called this novel a thundering piece of bad taste
Martin, Richard. Ink in Her Blood: The Life and Crime Fiction of Margery Allingham. UMI Research Press.
90
and told a friend that she had written it really to recover me from my father's sudden death and grim little funeral.
Martin, Richard. Ink in Her Blood: The Life and Crime Fiction of Margery Allingham. UMI Research Press.
90
For...
Reception
Norah Lofts
NL
's writing earned a high degree of popular success. Her books have sold more than one million copies. Many were reprinted in the 1970s by Corgi
, Fawcett
, Hodder and Stoughton
, Manor
Reception
Rose Macaulay
In July 1912 the manuscript of this novel had received a first prize of £600 in a competition held by Hodder and Stoughton
. It was particularly highly praised by Beatrice Harraden
, who was...
Reception
Berta Ruck
Publishers Hodder and Stoughton
issued The 'Berta Ruck
' Birthday Book: an indication of the degree to which she had already become a household name.
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.
Reception
Felicia Skene
Although FS
is not widely known today, some of her books have been reprinted in the last twenty years. A selection of her work is available online from the Victorian Women Writers Project
.
Willett, Perry, and Perry Willett, editors. “Victorian Women Writers Project”. Indiana University.