Hussey, Mark. Virginia Woolf A to Z. Facts on File, 1995.
328, 335
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Dedications | Virginia Woolf | VW
's first novel, The Voyage Out, dedicated To L. W., was published by Duckworth and Company
. Hussey, Mark. Virginia Woolf A to Z. Facts on File, 1995. 328, 335 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | Gerald Duckworth
(1870-1937) established the firm that became Duckworth & Co.
, publishers. He published VW
's first two novels, The Voyage Out, 1915, and Night and Day, 1919. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Beryl Bainbridge | The married couple Colin Haycraft
and Alice Thomas Ellis
(herself a writer) both worked at Gerald Duckworth
publishers, and met BB
while she was working there as a clerk. They taught her to write properly... |
Literary responses | Dorothy Richardson | Reviewers, one of whom was American poet Marianne Moore
, considered the book very handsome. Its publisher, Jackson
, took an increased interest in Richardson as a novelist even before this text came out, and... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Dorothy Richardson | During the summer of 1919, DR
made various appeals to Curtis Brown
and Alfred Knopf
for money to live on, as she earned virtually nothing from the American editions of her previous books. She was... |
Occupation | Beryl Bainbridge | BB
began working as a part-time clerk for the publishing firm Gerald Duckworth
, where Colin Haycraft
and his wife Anna (the writer Alice Thomas Ellis
) provided invaluable advice for her writing career. Anna... |
Occupation | Beryl Bainbridge | The four shillings and sixpence an hour she earned in this job went to supplement her payment from Duckworth
of a little over seven pounds a week. Taylor, Debbie. “Interview with Beryl Bainbridge”. Mslexia, pp. 14 -16. 14 |
Occupation | Beryl Bainbridge | With her publishers, Duckworth
, in financial difficulties in 1989, exacerbated by embarking on misconceived and expensive publicity schemes, BB
often acted as go-between for Colin Haycraft
and his potential, competing backers Roger Shashoua
and... |
Publishing | Elinor Glyn | EG
's war novel, Elizabeth's Daughter (1918), was published in serial form both in English periodicals by Frank Newnes
, and in American ones by the Hearst
press. Hearst used the title Elizabeth's Daughter Visits... |
Publishing | Dorothy Richardson | She found it difficult to write this novel because of the publishing difficulties over Oberland and the death of H. G. Wells
's wife Amy Catherine, Jane
(a longtime friend and the model for one... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Goudge | She compiled a list of publishers and sent the manuscript out on its rounds. She later wrote that Duckworth
, who accepted it, was the publishing firm to which she owed the greatest debt, because... |
Publishing | Dorothy Richardson | In September 1934, she met S. S. Koteliansky
, known as Kot to such friends and associates as Katherine Mansfield
and John Middleton Murry
, D. H. Lawrence
, and Virginia
and Leonard Woolf
... |
Publishing | Mary Agnes Hamilton | Mary Agnes Hamilton
changed her publisher to Duckworth
(from Heinemann
) for her next novel, Dead Yesterday, which expresses her horrified opposition to the First World War. Child, Harold H. “New Novels”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 748, p. 236. 236 Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944. 72-3 |
Publishing | George Egerton | She had begun the working on this translation many years earlier, in 1890-91, while living in London just after she had first met and fallen in love with Hamsun. Egerton, George. A Leaf from the Yellow Book. White, Terence de VereEditor , Richards Press, 1958. 19 |
Publishing | Evelyn Waugh | Its working title was Untoward Incidents. It was rejected as obscene by Duckworth
before Waugh turned to his father's firm. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Waugh, Evelyn. Decline and Fall. Chapman, 1928. prelims |