Bodley Head

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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.
16
Oldsey, Bernard Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 15. Gale Research.
15: 491
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 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...
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. http://rosemarysutcliff.com/.
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...
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.
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She then sent it to John Lane at...
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
AWE published with Bodley HeadThe Art of Being a Parent.
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.
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Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
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...
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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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.