Hutchinson

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

The first suggestion that she should write a novel came from Graham Nicol , editor of Hutchinson 's New Authors series.

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 . As the series took...

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.New Authors, the brainchild of Graham Nicoll ...

Both were re-issued in Hutchinson 's cheap editions in 1931.

Savage was forced to tell her, from Hutchinson , that her sales had slumped and that her mode of writing was considered out of date.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...

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). She remembered finishing it with her...

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.

With this novel she temporarily changed publishers, from W. Heinemann to another London firm, Hutchinson and Co.

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...

A US edition, however (published before 6 October 1900 in Chicago by Herbert S. Stone & Co. ), gave her name as Emma Brooke. The London edition was again published by Hutchinson .

She dedicated it to Frederick C. Skey , former president of the Royal College of Surgeons . Already in 1871, ostensibly the year of its book publication, two other London publishers, Gall and Inglis

AC signed a contract with Hutchinson on 4 February 1904. She received an advance of £75 that was desperately needed.

Her next romance, Will-o-the-Wisp, for which she had a contract with Hutchinson , she set aside from despair of being able to get it to the publisher. It finally appeared in the year of her death.

BC wrote seven more novels during the next decade. Her earlier novels, including her first, were published mainly by Duckworth , then Hutchinson . When sales declined, she switched to publishing with Mandarin and Severn .