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, Vol.
19
, 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
Beryl Bainbridge
She had completed this novel nearly two years before publication. It appeared while she was in the uncomfortable condition of owing nearly a hundred and sixty pounds to her agent, because of the size of...
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...
Publishing
Beryl Bainbridge
While marginally less productive, BB
continued during the 1980s to publish novels in a similar vein to her earlier ones. All through this decade she continued to find it difficult to manage her literary income...
Publishing
Beryl Bainbridge
This was the first book she had published since the death of Colin Haycraft
and after a determined attempt had been made to lure her away from Duckworth
to Viking. The final offer made...
Publishing
Beryl Bainbridge
BB
was by now a highly marketable commodity as novelists go. Her recent three-book publishing agreement brought her £78,000 up front—almost certainly less than she could have got by bargaining, and even called by...
Textual Production
Eva Mary Bell
Under the pseudonym of John Travers, EMB
published through Duckworth
her first novel, Sahib-log, whose title means the tribe or species of the white rulers of India.
She dedicated it to G. H. B.
(her husband) and R. C. H.
, who must be either her father or her brother who bore the same name. The original publisher, Duckworth
, put out...
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
Barbara Cartland
BC
wrote seven more novels during the next decade.
Heald, Tim. A Life of Love: The Life of Barbara Cartland. Sinclair-Stevenson.
166
Her earlier novels, including her first, were published mainly by Duckworth
, then Hutchinson
. When sales declined, she switched to publishing with Mandarin and Severn
.
Heald, Tim. A Life of Love: The Life of Barbara Cartland. Sinclair-Stevenson.
167-8
Residence
Clemence Dane
During the 1930s CD
lived in a flat in Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, in a building which for years housed the offices of Duckworth
the publishers.
Jones, Jonathan. “The body in the river”. The Guardian, Vol.
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press.
125
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. Editor White, Terence de Vere, Richards Press.