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
Marjorie Bowen
It was published under the same title by the Bodley Head
in London by October 1930.
Benstock, Bernard, and Thomas F. Staley, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 70. Gale Research.
Other plays followed. The Rocklitz was performed at the Duke of York's Theatre
in London on 4 February 1931, having been published in 1930 by the Bodley Head
in London and by Dodd, Mead
(as...
Textual Production
Agatha Christie
AC
's first detective novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (introducing her Belgian detective Hercule Poirot), was published in London by John Lane
at Bodley Head
and copyrighted as 1920.
Sanders, Dennis, and Len Lovallo. The Agatha Christie Companion. Delacorte.
9-10
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
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Ella D'Arcy
John Lane
of the Bodley Head
(publisher of The Yellow Book and one of the most innovative in the business during the 1890s) issued Monochromes, the first of two volumes which between them contain...
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Ella D'Arcy
John Lane
of the Bodley Head
published Modern Instances, his second of two volumes of stories by EDA
.
The title, from Jacques' Seven Ages of Man speech in William ShakespeareAs You Like It...
Textual Production
Ella D'Arcy
EDA
published through the Bodley Head
her single novel (or, at seventeen chapters, perhaps a novella). The title originally projected, Poor Human Nature, was apparently changed to The Bishop's Dilemma when Grant Richards
issued...
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...
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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. Editor White, Terence de Vere, Richards Press.
28
one of two she contributed to this journal during its run.
Gerber, Helmut E., editor. The English Short Story in Transition, 1880-1920. Pegasus.
131
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.
Egerton, George. A Leaf from the Yellow Book. Editor White, Terence de Vere, Richards Press.
Her friendship with Lane
, who published this collection, began to sour over the course of its writing. In a letter to him on 10 November 1896, GE
acknowledged that the volume might not be...
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...
Field, Michael. Sight and Song; with, Underneath the Bough. Editors Thornton, R. K. R. and Ian Small, Woodstock Books.
prelims
Textual Production
Rumer Godden
Bodley Head
issued RG
's A Letter to the World: poems for young readers: a selection from the work of Emily Dickinson
(a poet she had discovered with, she said, instant recognition).
The...
Timeline
September 1887: Charles Elkin Mathews, with John Lane as...
By September 1955: Baby and Child Care, by the US physician...
Building item
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.
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.