Duckworth

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...

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...

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. It was then rejected by a whole...

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...

Its working title was Untoward Incidents. It was rejected as obscene by Duckworth before Waugh turned to his father's firm. It is dedicated in Homage and Affection to EW 's Oxford friend and mentor Harold Acton .

Duckworth published EG 's epistolary novelLetters to Caroline in April 1914, after it had been serialised in Nash's Magazine.

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...

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...

BC wrote seven more novels during the next decade. Her earlier novels, including her first, were published mainly by Duckworth , then Hutchinson . When sales declined, she switched to publishing with Mandarin and Severn .

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...

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...

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.

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...

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.Edwin Björkman wrote the introduction...