J. M. Dent

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Wealth and Poverty Dorothy Richardson
DR also accepted financial assistance from friends and other sources. Early in their friendship Bryher established a trust fund that yielded Richardson £250 annually. She also committed £120, tax free, to Richardson for each year...
Textual Production Mabel Birchenough
MB published her final novel, Private Bobs and the New Recruit, through J. M. Dent .
Bassett, Troy J. At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction 1837-1901.
Textual Production Daphne Du Maurier
DDM 's Castle Dor, her completion of an unfinished novel by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch , was published by J. M. Dent .
Forster, Margaret. Daphne du Maurier. Chatto and Windus.
316, 439n3
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
3131(2 March 1962):141
Textual Production Kate Greenaway
From this year until 1894 Routledge published these annual volumes, printed by Edmund Evans . A number for 1897 was published by J. M. Dent & Co.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Naomi Royde-Smith
She compiled these books (the former for The Temple English Literature Series for Schools) while she was writing and reviewing for the Saturday Westminster Gazette. Una and the Red Cross Knight was reissued...
Textual Production Gladys Henrietta Schütze
The former Gladys Mendl, now GHS , first used a new pseudonym, Henrietta Leslie, on a novel called Where Runs the River?, published by J. M. Dent .
Dated from the Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
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.
Textual Production Hannah Lynch
HL 's guidebook or travel book Toledo. The Story of an Old Spanish Capital appeared in J. M. Dent 's series Mediaeval Towns, with illustrations by Helen M. James .
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
35820 (4 May 1899): 6
Textual Production Shena Mackay
SM edited and published with Dent an anthology entitled, and on the theme of, Friendship, with her own introduction.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
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.
Textual Production Ella K. Maillart
It was written in response to the request of an American publisher that she would summarize her earlier books. It was published in London by Dent . The work reads rather like condensed autobiography with...
Textual Production Dylan Thomas
DT 's second book, Twenty-Five Poems (its contents mostly reworked from his recent teenage years), was published by J. M. Dent . He had considered other titles, like Poems in Sequence or Poems in Progress.
Lycett, Andrew. Dylan Thomas. A New Life. Overlook Press.
136, 123
Phillips, Adam. “A Terrible Thing, Thank God”. London Review of Books, pp. 22-4.
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Textual Production Evelyn Underhill
EU published with J. M. Dent her study Jacopone da Todi , Poet and Mystic--1228-1306, a Spiritual Biography.
Underhill, Evelyn, and Jacopone da Todi. Jacopone da Todi. Translator Beck, Mrs Theodore, J. M. Dent; E. P. Dutton.
prelims
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Carola Oman
CO contributed Robin Hood, The Prince of Outlaws, a biography based on medieval sources, to J. M. Dent 's Children's Illustrated Classics series.
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.
Textual Production Linda Villari
LV 's final major work, the historical novel Oswald von Wolkenstein: A Memoir of the Last Minnesinger of Tirol, was published by J. M. Dent and Company . LV wrote it at Florence and...
Textual Production Dorothy Richardson
DR published Clear Horizon, the eleventh volume of Pilgrimage. This was the first of the series to be published by J. M. Dent , and the last to be issued as a stand-alone book.
Fromm, Gloria G. Dorothy Richardson: A Biography. University of Illinois Press.
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Reception Dorothy Richardson
Her publisher Richard Church of Dent had organised a group of people, including novelist Hugh Walpole , to write on her behalf to Prime Minister Chamberlain . The pension allowed Richardson and her husband relief...

Timeline

1888: J. M. Dent established J. M. Dent and Company...

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1888

J. M. Dent established J. M. Dent and Company at 69 Great Eastern Street in London; the same year he began issuing the Temple Library, the first effort by a British publisher to...

1904: Publisher J. M. Dent began planning the Everyman's...

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1904

Publisher J. M. Dent began planning the Everyman's Library series, reprints of classic texts (including biographies, treatises of all sorts, plays, poems, travel and adventure writing) with introductions by experts.Everyman

By 27 September 1905: Scientist Grace Chisholm Young published...

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By 27 September 1905

Scientist Grace Chisholm Young published the first of two scientific books co-authored with her husband, William Henry Young : The First Book of Geometry.

February 1906: Publisher J. M. Dent launched Everyman's...

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February 1906

Publisher J. M. Dent launched Everyman's Library, aiming to reprint 1,000 classic titles: the first year's 155 volumes included Æschylus , Shakespeare , Jane Austen practically complete,
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell.
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and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu .

Texts

Baldwin, Louisa. The Shadow on the Blind, and Other Ghost Stories. J. M. Dent, 1895.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. J. M. Dent, 1958.
Breen, Jennifer, editor. Women Romantic Poets, 1785-1832. J. M. Dent, 1992.
Donne, John. The Complete English Poems of John Donne. Editor Patrides, Constantinos A., J. M. Dent, 1985.
Dowie, Ménie Muriel. Gallia. Editor Small, Helen, J. M. Dent, 1995.
Gordon, Giles, editor. Modern Short Stories 2, 1940-1980. J. M. Dent, 1982.
Hazlitt, William. The Collected Works of William Hazlitt. Editor Howe, Percival Presland, J. M. Dent, 1930.
Lamb, Charles, and Mary Lamb. The Letters of Charles Lamb. Editor Lucas, Edward Verrall, J. M. Dent, 1935.
Lockhart, John Gibson, and William Mathie Parker. The Life of Sir Walter Scott. J. M. Dent, 1957.
Lynch, Hannah. Dr. Vermont’s Fantasy and Other Stories. J. M. Dent, 1896.
Lynch, Hannah. Jinny Blake. J. M. Dent, 1897.
Paris, Gaston. Mediæval French Literature. Translator Lynch, Hannah, J. M. Dent, 1903.
Lynch, Hannah. Toledo. The Story of an Old Spanish Capital. J. M. Dent, 1899.
Lyons, Paddy, and Fidelis Morgan, editors. Female Playwrights of the Restoration: Five Comedies. J. M. Dent, 1991.
Macmillan, Hugh. The Life Work of George Frederic Watts, R.A. J. M. Dent, 1906.
Mary, Baroness Warnock, editor. Women Philosophers. J. M. Dent, 1996.
George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron,. “Introduction”. Byron’s Poems, edited by Vivian de Sola Pinto, J. M. Dent, 1968, p. 1: v - xx.
Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur Thomas, and Daphne Du Maurier. Castle Dor. J. M. Dent, 1962.
Robinson, Henry Crabb. Henry Crabb Robinson on Books and Their Writers. Editor Morley, Edith, J. M. Dent, 1938.
Schütze, Gladys Henrietta. Where Runs the River?. J. M. Dent, 1916.
Smedley, Constance, and Maxwell Armfield. Sylvia’s Travels. J. M. Dent, 1911.
Streatfeild, Noel. Ballet Shoes. J. M. Dent, 1936.
Streatfeild, Noel, and Steven Spurrier. The Circus is Coming. J. M. Dent, 1938.
Thomas, Dylan. Quite Early One Morning. J. M. Dent, 1954.
Thomas, Dylan. Twenty-Five Poems. J. M. Dent, 1936.