Hutchinson

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Anthologization Elaine Feinstein
EF published with Hutchinson in 1973 (the same year as her third novel, The Glass Alembic) a poetry volume entitled The Celebrants, from which Fleur Adcock selected the poem Lais for The Faber...
Dedications Maureen Duffy
MD published with HutchinsonLyrics for the Dog Hour, a book of poems, headed with an address in Latin to Death and a dedication in Italian to Anadyomene.
Anadyomene, meaning I rise from the...
Material Conditions of Writing Susan Hill
SH issued her second novel, Do Me a Favour, another very early work, written as an undergraduate and published, like her first, with Hutchinson .
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Publishing Violet Trefusis
VT and Philippe Jullian collaborated on Memoirs of an Armchair, the translation of Jullian' Mémoires d'une bergère, a fantasy about a Tilliard chair that observes a variety of historical and fictional events over...
Publishing Beryl Bainbridge
BB 's first venture into print, the novel A Weekend with Claud, appeared under the auspices of Hutchinson 's New Authors imprint, which functioned like a co-operative.
King, Brendan. Beryl Bainbridge. Bloomsbury , 2016.
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Hamilton, Alex. “My First Book”. The Author, No. 1, pp. 23 - 4.
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Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Publishing Michelene Wandor
In 1990 MW published a larger collection with Hutchinson in England and Random Century in the USA under the same title as the 1984 volume: Gardens of Eden: Selected Poems. A second collection, with...
Publishing Naomi Jacob
NJ 's novel Strange Beginning was published by Robert Hale after, to her extreme displeasure, her faithful agent Raymond Savage informed her that Hutchinson no longer wanted her on their list.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012].
(11 August 1961): 500
Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin), 2001.
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Publishing Rebecca West
The Modern "Rake's Progress", with words by RW and paintings by David Low , was published by Hutchinson .
Hutchinson, G. Evelyn. A Preliminary List of the Writings of Rebecca West, 1912-1951. Yale University Library, 1957.
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West, Rebecca, and David Low. The Modern "Rake’s Progress". Hutchinson, 1934.
Publishing Beryl Bainbridge
Hodder and Stoughton turned it down, then Chapman and Hall , then Chatto and Windus , all with words of encouragement which BB felt too insecure to take in. These were later joined by Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Publishing Maureen Duffy
The first suggestion that she should write a novel came from Graham Nicol , editor of Hutchinson 's New Authors series.
This remarkable series published first books only, provided the same contract to all its...
Publishing Naomi Jacob
The title is a phrase used to describe the evangelist St Luke . This seems to have been the last novel that NJ published through Thornton Butterworth before switching to Hutchinson .
Publishing Beryl Bainbridge
The manuscript of this book had been firmly dismissed, with negative comment on the imagery, diction, and spelling, in 1964 by BB 's then agent.
King, Brendan. Beryl Bainbridge. Bloomsbury , 2016.
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New Authors, the brainchild of Graham Nicoll ...
Publishing Naomi Jacob
This novel was published by Hutchinson , to whom NJ moved from Butterworth as a result of the lucrative, long-standing contract negotiated with Hutchinson by her agent, Raymond Savage .
Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin), 2001.
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As the series took...
Publishing Hélène Barcynska
It is often referred to as her first novel (presumably in part because The Little Mother Who Sits at Home was presented as non-fiction).
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
55957 (11 March 1964): 15
She remembered finishing it with her...
Publishing Naomi Jacob
Savage was forced to tell her, from Hutchinson , that her sales had slumped and that her mode of writing was considered out of date. She blamed the messenger for the news, and never forgave...

Timeline

10 October 1887
George Thompson Hutchinson founded Hutchinson and Company (Publishers) Limited at 25 Paternoster Row, London.
1906
Stanley Paul and Company Limited was founded by Stanley Paul at 31 Essex Street, London, after he left the staff of Hutchinson and Company .
1914
Claire De Pratz 's Pomm's Daughter was published through Hutchinson .
1921
Hutchinson published Josephine Ward 's novelNot Known Here.
29 December 1940
St Paul's Cathedral in London survived an air raid that destroyed almost all the buildings around it; a photograph of the dome standing amidst flames and billowing smoke became an emblem of the courage of...
1954
Five books were the subject of obscenity prosecutions in England: Walter Baxter 's The Image and the Search, Vivian Connell 's September in Quinze, Charles McGraw 's The Man in Control,...