Egerton, George. A Leaf from the Yellow Book. White, Terence de VereEditor , Richards Press, 1958.
28
Bodley Head
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Employer | Graham Greene | GG
also worked as director for two different London publishing houses: for Eyre and Spottiswoode
from 1944 (when he resigned from the secret service) to 1948 and for Bodley Head
for ten years beginning in... |
| Friends, Associates | Evelyn Sharp | ES
wrote later that at no time in her life did she make intimate friends easily. Most people she had to do with she liked up to a certain point only, but she could count... |
| Occupation | Ella D'Arcy | As well as a writer, EDA
was an editor, assistant to Henry Harland
on the avant-garde Yellow Book, published by John Lane
of the Bodley Head
. Sources agree on this, though she herself... |
| Occupation | Harriet Shaw Weaver | HSW
was stringent about granting permission to use Joyce's texts (for which the demand was such that the Board of Trade
's paper restrictions often impeded projects to reprint), and insisted that foreign rights should... |
| Publishing | George Egerton | After receiving Gill's advice, GE
sent the manuscript to William Heinemann
, who promptly returned it, saying he was not interested in publishing mediocre short stories. |
| Publishing | George Egerton | GE
's publishing relationship with Lane
ended in 1898 over poor sales of her later titles and Bodley Head
's increasing demands for more popular, accessible work.Grant Richards
(who like her had published in... |
| Publishing | Rosamund Marriott Watson | She had entered negotiations with Lane
about the book's publication in January 1902: although she was keen for her friend to publish the book, she threatened in a letter to make an abrupt change of... |
| Publishing | Amabel Williams-Ellis | Writing as mother and grandmother, novelist and social historian, British Book News. British Council. (1953): 8 |
| Publishing | Muriel Spark | Dutton
issued The Stories of Muriel Spark in the USA (in which only six pieces were unpublished); an English edition followed two years later as Collected Stories, her last book with Bodley Head
. Rees, David. Muriel Spark, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, A Bibliography of their First Editions. Colophon Press, 1992. 17 Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2009. 473-4 |
| Publishing | Muriel Spark | The book was not at the time published in the US or registered with the Library of Congress
. The result was a pirated edition, and largely for this reason MS
set about revising it... |
| Publishing | Muriel Spark | G. P. Putnam's Sons
did the trade edition in the US. The Bodley Head
edition followed on 6 September. The First Edition Society
edition was illustrated by Vivienne Flesher
, and was sold to subscribers... |
| Reception | Rosemary Sutcliff | Sutcliffe's high reputation brought her the honour of a monograph in the Bodley Head
series on children's writers (1962, authored by Margaret Meek
). In 1983, she appeared on the popular radio programme Desert Island Discs. Lawton, Anthony. Rosemary Sutcliff. |
| Reception | Lucy Boston | The Knowe novels were well received and sold well. Jasper Rose was asked to write a Bodley Head
monograph about LB
in 1965, and The Children of Green Knowe was dramatised for television during the... |
| Textual Production | Noel Streatfeild | In 1961 NS
had the honour of appearing in Bodley Head
's series of monographs on children's writers, where she joined such household names as Mary Louisa Molesworth
, Juliana Horatia Ewing
, Lewis Carroll |
| Textual Production | George Egerton | John Lane
, at the Bodley Head
, included a rather self-consciously clever sketch by GE
in the first issue of The Yellow Book, Egerton, George. A Leaf from the Yellow Book. White, Terence de VereEditor , Richards Press, 1958. 28 Gerber, Helmut E., editor. The English Short Story in Transition, 1880-1920. Pegasus, 1967. 131 |
Timeline
September 1887
Charles Elkin Mathews
, with John Lane
as his silent partner, founded Bodley Head
publishing house in Vigo Street, Mayfair, London.
1890s
April 1894
From 30 September 1894
Charles Elkin Mathews
continued publishing independently at 6B Vigo Street, London, after the dissolution of his partnership with John Lane
of Bodley Head
.
1914
Margaret Louisa Woods
's Collected Poems, containing lyrics and socially conscious poetry, was published by Bodley Head
.
By September 1955
Baby and Child Care, by the US physician Benjamin Spock
, was published in the UK by Bodley Head
: among its middle-class readership it inaugurated a new era of child-centred parenting.