Writing this book helped KBG
enormously in coming to terms with her grief over her son's death. The first edition was said to have sold out rapidly and is now very rare. In a new...
Publishing
Sarah Grand
SG
had begun writing the novel by 1898, as a serial very quickly, before Ideala.
Kersley, Gillian. Darling Madame: Sarah Grand and Devoted Friend. Virago Press.
103
The New York edition had illustrations by Arthur I. Keller
. The book was not published in Britain...
Textual Production
Beatrice Harraden
BH
's Where Your Treasure Is, a First World War novel (titled from Christ's anti-materialist advice that where your treasure is, there will your heart be also),
Sedgwick, Alice. “New Novels”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 878, p. 554.
554
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Reception
Georgette Heyer
GH
later called her second novel, The Great Roxhythe. (published with Hutchinson
in 1922 and set late in the reign of Charles II
), the worst book I ever wrote—the sort of book that makes...
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.
14
Textual Production
Lucille Iremonger
LI
's second book was a novel, Creole (based on the experience of her own youth), published by Hutchinson
as number 133 in their First Novel Library.
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
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
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).
147
As the series took...
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, that her sales had slumped and that her mode of writing was considered out of date.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...
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.
Ellis, Stewart Marsh. Wilkie Collins, Le Fanu, and Others. Books for Libraries Press.
326
Already in 1871, ostensibly the year of its book publication, two other London publishers, Gall and Inglis
Reception
Elizabeth Robins
ER
's publisher, Hutchinson
, blamed this book's poor sales (only 300 copies) on the author's insistence on maintaining her anonymity.
John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge.
214
Reviewers, however, mostly revealed her identify, and those who quarrelled with this book...
Publishing
May Sinclair
For The Three BrontësMS
changed her publisher to Hutchinson
, who had offered her a generous advance on her next three novels. She probably felt that Constable
had not made enough effort on the...
Publishing
Edith Sitwell
She continued to milk this book for money, with an enlarged edition from Vanguard
in 1957 which was reprinted by Dobson
in September 1958, and an abridged version in Hutchinson
's Grey Arrow Books, 1960.
British Book News. British Council.
(1960): 432
Fifoot, Richard. A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Rupert Hart-Davis.
46
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Texts
Dell, Ethel M. Verses. Hutchinson, 1923.
Dickens, Mary Angela. The Debtor. Hutchinson, 1912.
Dickens, Mary Angela. The Wastrel. Hutchinson, 1900.
Duffy, Maureen. Lyrics for the Dog Hour. Hutchinson, 1968.
Duffy, Maureen. The Paradox Players. Hutchinson, 1967.
Duffy, Maureen. Wounds. Hutchinson, 1969.
Dunmore, Helen. Birdcage Walk. Hutchinson, 2017.
Dunmore, Helen. Girl, Balancing and Other Stories. Hutchinson, 2018.
Egerton, George. Flies in Amber. Hutchinson, 1905.
Emmuska, Baroness Orczy,. A Bride of the Plains. Hutchinson, 1915.
Emmuska, Baroness Orczy,. Links in the Chain of Life. Hutchinson, 1947.