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...
Publishing
Charlotte Mew
CM
's Collected Poems were posthumously published by Duckworth
, with a memoir by Alida Monro
.
British Book News. British Council.
(1954): 121
Publishing
Elinor Glyn
She began this novel knowing nothing about writing as a profession. She wrote the entire manuscript in a set of children's copy-books.
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
Elinor Glyn
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...
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
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
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...
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...
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.
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...
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press.
125
Textual Production
Naomi Jacob
Look at the Clock: A Yorkshire Novel, begun in Italy by NJ
's mother, was published by Duckworth
under the name of Nina Abbott, with a foreword by Jacob.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin).
144
Textual Production
D. H. Lawrence
Duckworth
published DHL
's The Prussian Officer, and Other Stories.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
162
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.
58
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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.
