Bodley Head

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Textual Production Naomi Mitchison
Bodley Head issued the first volume of NM 's autobiography, Small Talk: Memoirs of an Edwardian Childhood.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
1976
Benton, Jill. Naomi Mitchison: A Biography. Pandora.
183
Textual Production Georgette Heyer
Georgette Heyer 's fictionalised biography My Lord John was published posthumously by the Bodley Head .
Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
(1988)
Hodge, Jane Aiken. The Private World of Georgette Heyer. Bodley Head.
209
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...
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...
Textual Production Michael Field
Only 400 copies were printed by Charles Elkin Mathews and John Lane for Bodley Head .
Field, Michael. Sight and Song; with, Underneath the Bough. Editors Thornton, R. K. R. and Ian Small, Woodstock Books.
prelims
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. 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.
28
She then sent it to John Lane at...
Textual Production George Egerton
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...
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...
Textual Production 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...
Textual Production 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...
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 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.
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Texts

Spark, Muriel. Loitering with Intent. Bodley Head, 1981.
Sutcliff, Rosemary. Rudyard Kipling. Bodley Head, 1960.
Usborne, Karen. "Elizabeth": The Author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden. Bodley Head, 1986.
Williams-Ellis, Amabel. The Art of Being a Parent. Bodley Head, 1952.
Williams-Ellis, Amabel. The Art of Being a Woman. Bodley Head, 1951.
Wilson, Barbara Ker. Noel Streatfeild. Bodley Head, 1961.
Wood, Alan. The Groundnut Affair. Bodley Head, 1950.