Biographer Julia Briggs
believes that the original story was stimulated by EN
's writing about her own schooldays for the Girls' Own Paper.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
The composite book of tales appeared in instalments in The Windsor...
Publishing
Mary Wesley
In the same year that she published her first novel for adults, MW
followed her first two children's books with a third, Haphazard House. Written after the death of her husband, and taking death...
Richard Church
of Dent
had written to DR
in March 1936 to suggest publishing a collected edition of Pilgrimage, including her proposed twelfth volume, as the completed series. This upset and worried Richardson (who...
Publishing
Dorothy Richardson
After reading volume twelve (Dimple Hill) in 1937, Richard Church
was enthusiastic (he liked the novel better than Clear Horizon) and prepared to go ahead with publishing the collection. However, his plan...
Publishing
Ménie Muriel Dowie
It was published simultaneously in New York by J. P. Linnicott
and in London by Methuen and Co.
A second London edition appeared just a few months later in May, and the novel was reprinted...
Publishing
Laura Riding
The great unpublished work of LR
's lifetime was a dictionary. Various groups of friends collaborated on the early phases of this project, first in Mallorca and then in London. Its ancestor was a modest...
Publishing
Laura Riding
That change in life-course, however, put a lengthy stop to work on the dictionary. On 8 September 1942, by which time she was working on it with Schuyler Jackson
and a new contract had been...
Publishing
Githa Sowerby
GS
published through J. M. Dent
her first book of verse for children, The Wise Book, with illustrations by her sister Millicent Sowerby
.
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.
Commissioned by Mabel Carey
, children's editor at J. M. Dent
, NS
produced the first, most famous of her children's books, Ballet Shoes. It reworks the central situation of her first adult book, The Whicharts.
Huse, Nancy. Noel Streatfeild. Twayne.
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Wilson, Barbara Ker. Noel Streatfeild. Bodley Head.
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Publishing
Josephine Tey
Written in London in the early days of World War Two, which felt like the end of civilization, it had an all-male cast, and was published posthumously in 1953 among her collected plays. In 1955...
Material Conditions of Writing
Dorothy Richardson
DR
began writing March Moonlight, the last segment of Pilgrimage, in 1938, before the publication of the first collected edition. However, she put it aside for various reasons, including the Second World War...
Literary responses
Kate Greenaway
The first Almanack (for 1883, published in 1882) sold 90,000 copies in England, America, France and Germany.
Lundin, Anne. Victorian Horizons: The Reception of the Picture Books of Walter Crane, Randolph Caldecott, and Kate Greenaway. Scarecrow Press, Inc.
181
It was among Routledge's most important and bestselling titles.
Engen, Rodney. Kate Greenaway: A Biography. Macdonald Futura Publishers Limited.
158
The later almanacs proved to be equally...
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Texts
Villari, Linda. Oswald von Wolkenstein: A Memoir of the Last Minnesinger of Tirol. J. M. Dent, 1901.
Wesley, Mary. Haphazard House. J. M. Dent, 1983.
Roots, Ivan et al. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Puritanism and Liberty, edited by Arthur Sutherland Piggott Woodhouse, 2ndnd ed, J. M. Dent, 1974, p. various pages.
Young, Grace Chisholm, and Alice B. Woodward. Bimbo. J. M. Dent, 1905.
Young, Grace Chisholm. Bimbo and the Frogs. J. M. Dent, 1907.
Young, Grace Chisholm, and William Henry Young. The First Book of Geometry. J. M. Dent, 1905.