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.
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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
...
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.
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Harvey, David Dow. Ford Madox Ford, 1873-1939: A Bibliography of Works and Criticism. Princeton University Press.
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
Elinor Glyn
EG
's romance novel The Career of Katherine Bush appeared from Duckworth
in London the year after Appleton
had published it in the USA.
Dalton, Frederick Thomas. “Review of <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The Career of Katherine Bush</span> by Elinor Glyn”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 795, p. 176.
EG
began this novel, whose working title was The Chronicle of Ambrosine, while she was in Egypt. She finished it at Carlsbad on 20 August 1902, after a long interruption caused by travel...
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Elinor Glyn
Duckworth
issued a reprint on 31 October 1974, with an introduction by photographer Cecil Beaton
(which had also appeared in the Times just before the reprint was published). Beaton had first met with EG
's...
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...
Textual Production
Elinor Glyn
The deal was struck after EG
asked Blumenfeld
if he could help her earn £1,000, which she desperately needed to cover her husband's latest debts. She finished the novel in eighteen days, having instructed her...
Publishing
Elinor Glyn
Duckworth
published EG
's epistolary novel Letters to Caroline in April 1914, after it had been serialised in Nash's Magazine.
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
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...
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Texts
Cartland, Barbara. Jig-Saw. Duckworth, 1925.
Coles, Gladys Mary. The Flower of Light: A Biography of Mary Webb. Duckworth, 1978.
Farjeon, Eleanor, and MacDonald Gill. Nursery Rhymes of London Town. Duckworth, 1916.
Fitzgerald, Penelope. The Bookshop. Duckworth, 1978, p. 118 pp.
Fitzgerald, Penelope. The Golden Child. Duckworth, 1977, p. 159 pp.
Ford, Ford Madox. A Man Could Stand Up. Duckworth, 1926.
Ford, Ford Madox. Last Post. Duckworth, 1928.
Ford, Ford Madox. No More Parades. Duckworth, 1925.
Ford, Ford Madox. Some Do Not—. Duckworth, 1924.
Galsworthy, John. Escape. Duckworth, 1926.
Galsworthy, John. Justice. Duckworth, 1910.
Galsworthy, John. Loyalties. Duckworth, 1922.
Galsworthy, John. Strife. Duckworth, 1910.
Galsworthy, John. The Silver Box. Duckworth, 1910.
Galsworthy, John. The Skin Game. Duckworth, 1920.
Glyn, Elinor. "It" and Other Stories. Duckworth, 1927.
Glyn, Elinor. Beyond the Rocks. Duckworth, 1906.
Glyn, Elinor. Elizabeth Visits America. Duckworth, 1909.
Glyn, Elinor. The Damsel and the Sage. Duckworth, 1903.
Glyn, Elinor. The Reason Why. Duckworth, 1911.
Glyn, Elinor. The Visits of Elizabeth. Duckworth, 1900.
Glyn, Elinor. Three Weeks. Duckworth, 1907.
Glyn, Elinor, and Cecil Beaton. Three Weeks. Duckworth, 1974.
Goudge, Elizabeth. A City of Bells. Duckworth, 1936.