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...
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...
Textual Production
Ford Madox Ford
FMF
published with DuckworthSome Do Not—, the first novel in his Parade's End tetralogy about the First World War.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
34
Harvey, David Dow. Ford Madox Ford, 1873-1939: A Bibliography of Works and Criticism. Princeton University Press.
She composed this work as an amusement and distraction for her husband, during the illness of which he died two years later.
Harvey-Wood, Harriet. “Penelope Fitzgerald”. The Guardian, p. 22.
22
She made some cuts at the instigation of her then publisher, Duckworth
Publishing
Penelope Fitzgerald
This was her last book to be published by Duckworth
, so it must have been after this that she felt Duckworth were trying to drop her. Proudly, she dropped them first, and rejected overtures...
Publishing
Penelope Fitzgerald
She wrote this book nearly twenty years after the experiences on which she based it, and not long after her husband died. With it she switched publishers for her novels, from Duckworth
to Collins
...
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.
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press.
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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.
saturday review
, p. 5.
5
Later, she lived above a greengrocer's shop...
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.
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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...
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...
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Texts
Goudge, Elizabeth, and C. Walter Hodges. Sister of the Angels. Duckworth, 1939.
Goudge, Elizabeth, and C. Walter Hodges. Smoky-House. Duckworth, 1940.
Goudge, Elizabeth. The Bird in the Tree. Duckworth, 1940.
Goudge, Elizabeth. The Castle on the Hill. Duckworth, 1942.
Goudge, Elizabeth. Three Plays. Duckworth, 1939.
Goudge, Elizabeth. Towers in the Mist. Duckworth, 1938.
Goudge, Elizabeth. White Wings. Duckworth, 1952.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Dead Yesterday. Duckworth, 1916.
Hamnett, Nina, and Osbert Sitwell. The People’s Album of London Statues. Duckworth, 1928.
Hollis, Christopher. Dryden. Duckworth, 1933.
Honore, Tony. Sex Law. Duckworth, 1978.
Jacob, Naomi. Look at the Clock: A Yorkshire Novel. Duckworth, 1939.
Jaeger, Muriel. Hermes Speaks. Duckworth, 1933.
Jaeger, Muriel. Retreat from Armageddon. Duckworth, 1936.
Leverson, Ada, and Oscar Wilde. “Reminiscences of the Author”. Letters to the Sphinx from Oscar Wilde, Duckworth, 1930, pp. 19-49.