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
wrote three more travel novels over the course of her career: His Hour (October 1910, a romantic novel in which she recounts her experiences in Russia and at the Russian court), Letters from Spain... |
Publishing | Dorothy Richardson | When she finished the novel early in 1913, she showed it to Jack Beresford and a publisher. Neither of them was enthusiastic, so the manuscript was stored for some time. In January 1915, Beresford suggested... |
Publishing | Dorothy Richardson | Their financial situation became more dire during this year. Backwater brought in royalities amounting to less than Duckworth's advance, and Richardson also owed money to Curtis Brown
, the agent who negotiated her contracts with... |
Publishing | Eva Mary Bell | |
Publishing | Elinor Glyn | |
Publishing | Catherine Carswell | The novel had been submitted to Duckworth
in the spring of 1918, but was rejected as too long (production costs had more than doubled as a result of the war). Chatto and Windus
offered a... |
Publishing | Elinor Glyn | Shortly after the publication of The Career of Katherine Bush, Duckworth
signed a contract with Jonathan Cape
to publish cheap editions of EG
's books. This contract greatly expanded her reading public, as well... |