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...
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...
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...
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.
Mary Agnes Hamilton
changed her publisher to Duckworth
(from Heinemann
) for her next novel, Dead Yesterday, which expresses her horrified opposition to the First World War.
Child, Harold H. “New Novels”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 748, p. 236.
236
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape.
72-3
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
Publishing
Penelope Fitzgerald
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
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
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
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
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.
