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...
RS
chose the England of King Arthur
for an adult novel entitled Sword at Sunset, which her new publishers, Hodder and Stoughton
, advertised as her greatest novel.
RS
also published five adult historical novels, two of them during this decade: Lady in Waiting, 1956, and The Rider of the White Horse, 1959. For these she chose a different publisher, Hodder and Stoughton
Material Conditions of Writing
Emmuska, Baroness Orczy
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...
Literary responses
Edith Mary Moore
Even before publication, Hodder and Stoughton
called this novel almost perfect of its kind and said that they were proud to issue it.
Goudge, Elizabeth, and Rose Dobbs. At the Sign of the Dolphin: An Elizabeth Goudge Anthology. Hodder and Stoughton, 1947.
Goudge, Elizabeth. Green Dolphin Country. Hodder and Stoughton, 1944.
Goudge, Elizabeth. The Child from the Sea. Hodder and Stoughton, 1970.
Goudge, Elizabeth, and A. R. Whitear. The Dean’s Watch. Hodder and Stoughton, 1960.
Goudge, Elizabeth. The Heart of the Family. Hodder and Stoughton, 1953.
Goudge, Elizabeth. The Herb of Grace. Hodder and Stoughton, 1948.
Goudge, Elizabeth. The Joy of the Snow. Hodder and Stoughton, 1974.
Goudge, Elizabeth. The White Witch. Hodder and Stoughton, 1958.
Hamilton, W. F. Tucker, and Agnes Giberne. “Preface”. A Lady of England: The Life and Letters of Charlotte Maria Tucker, Hodder and Stoughton, 1895, p. vii - viii.
Harkness, Margaret. A Curate’s Promise. Hodder and Stoughton, 1921.
Harkness, Margaret. Captain Lobe. Hodder and Stoughton, 1889.
Harraden, Beatrice. Patuffa. Hodder and Stoughton, 1923.
Harraden, Beatrice. Spring Shall Plant. Hodder and Stoughton, 1920.
Harraden, Beatrice. Youth Calling. Hodder and Stoughton, 1924.
Izzard, Molly. Freya Stark: A Biography. Hodder and Stoughton, 1993.
Kaplan, Fred. Dickens: A Biography. Hodder and Stoughton, 1988.
Kipling, Rudyard. Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling. Hodder and Stoughton, 1912.
Legge, Margaret. A Tempestuous Daughter. Hodder and Stoughton, 1924.
Levy, Amy. Miss Meredith. Hodder and Stoughton, 1889.
Linton, Eliza Lynn, and Beatrice Harraden. My Literary Life. Hodder and Stoughton, 1899.
Lofts, Norah. Gad’s Hall. Hodder and Stoughton, 1977.
Lofts, Norah. Haunted House. Hodder and Stoughton, 1978.
Lofts, Norah. Queens of Britain. Hodder and Stoughton, 1977.
Macaulay, Rose. Non-Combatants and Others. Hodder and Stoughton, 1916.
Macaulay, Rose. The Lee Shore. Hodder and Stoughton, 1912.