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
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issued The Stories of Muriel Spark in the USA (in which only six pieces were unpublished); an English edition followed two years later as Collected Stories, her last book with Bodley Head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...
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.
Egerton, George. A Leaf from the Yellow Book. Editor White, Terence de Vere, Richards Press, 1958.
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
AWE
published with Bodley HeadThe Art of Being a Parent.
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.
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
Lettice Cooper
LC
contributed a volume, Great Men of Yorkshire (West Riding), to Bodley Head
's Men of the Counties series of collected biographies.
British Book News. British Council.
(1955): 1145
Textual Production
Muriel Spark
MS
's next novel, Loitering with Intent, marked her change of publisher from Macmillan
to Bodley Head
.
Rees, David. Muriel Spark, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, A Bibliography of their First Editions. Colophon Press, 1992.
16
Oldsey, Bernard Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 15. Gale Research, 1983.
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.
Texts
Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach,. “Introduction”. The Beautiful Lady Craven, edited by Lewis Saul Benjamin and Alexander Meyrick Broadley, Bodley Head, 1914, p. i - cxxxviii.
Boston, Lucy. Memory in a House. Bodley Head, 1973.
Boston, Lucy. Perverse and Foolish. Bodley Head, 1979.
Boston, Lucy, and Margery Gill. The Castle of Yew. Bodley Head, 1965.
Boston, Lucy, and Peter Boston. The Stones of Green Knowe. Bodley Head, 1976.