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.
Hussey, Mark. Virginia Woolf A to Z. Facts on File.
328, 335
Textual Production
Virginia Woolf
VW
submitted the completed manuscript of Night and Day to Gerald Duckworth
, who accepted it for publication by Duckworth's
on 7 May.
Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. Hogarth Press.
2: 232
Textual Production
Virginia Woolf
VW
's second novel, Night and Day, was published by Duckworth
.
Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. Hogarth Press.
2: 233
Publishing
Antonia White
Her husband Tom Hopkinson used persuasion and compulsion to get her to complete her manuscript, giving her deadlines for reading it to him, chapter by chapter.
Vaux, Anna. “Biscuits. Oh good!”. London Review of Books, pp. 32-4.
32
Hopkinson, Amanda. “Aunt Tony”. London Review of Books, pp. 4-5.
4
It was then rejected by a whole...
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 et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
It is dedicated in Homage and Affection to EW
's Oxford
friend and mentor Harold Acton
.
Waugh, Evelyn. Decline and Fall. Chapman.
prelims
Textual Production
Dorothy Richardson
DR
's novel Interim, the fifth volume of Pilgrimage, was published in its entirety (following serialization) with Duckworth
.
Fromm, Gloria G. Dorothy Richardson: A Biography. University of Illinois Press.
425
Textual Production
Dorothy Richardson
DR
issued Dawn's Left Hand, volume ten of Pilgrimage, and her last book published by Duckworth
.
Fromm, Gloria G. Dorothy Richardson: A Biography. University of Illinois Press.
257, 425
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...
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...
Publishing
Dorothy Richardson
H. G. Wells
offered to find her another publisher than Duckworth
, as he felt she could do better in terms of remuneration and publicity with someone else. Finally, after the manuscript was refused by...
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...
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...
Timeline
1912: Janet Dodge published her novel Tony Unregenerate...