Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
(1988)
Bodley Head
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | 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... |
| Textual Production | Georgette Heyer | Georgette Heyer
's fictionalised biography My Lord John was published posthumously by the Bodley Head
. Hodge, Jane Aiken. The Private World of Georgette Heyer. Bodley Head. 209 |
| 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 | Evelyn Sharp | Evelyn Sharp
published with John Lane
's Bodley Head
(as Keynotes series No. 13) her very immature novel Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head. 55 Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head. 57 |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| 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issued The Stories of Muriel Spark in the USA (in which only six pieces were unpublished); an English edition followed two years later as Collected Stories, her last book with Bodley Head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. 17 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... |
| 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 | Rosemary Sutcliff | The same year as her book about historic houses, RS
published a work which was much more a labour of love: Rudyard Kipling, in the Bodley Head
's series of monographs on writers for... |
| Textual Production | Rosemary Sutcliff | RS
published through the Bodley HeadSun Horse, Moon Horse, a historical novel for young people set in Iron Age Britain, with decorations by Shirley Felts
. Her hero this time is Lubrin Dhu... |
| 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/. |
| Textual Production | Rosamund Marriott Watson | John Lane
of Bodley Head
gave RMW
a birthday present by publishing her fifth collection of poetry, After Sunset, on this day (bearing a date of 1904). Hughes, Linda K. “A Woman Poet Angling for Notice: Rosamund Marriott Watson”. Marketing the Author: Authorial Personae, Narrative Selves and Self-Fashioning, 1880-1930, edited by Marysa Demoor and Marysa Demoor, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 134-55. 148 British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| Textual Production | Rosamund Marriott Watson | The Poems of Rosamund Marriott Watson were posthumously published by John Lane
at the Bodley Head
. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. Watson, H. B. Marriott, and Rosamund Marriott Watson. “Introduction”. The Poems of Rosamund Marriott Watson, John Lane, Bodley Head, p. vii - ix. ix |
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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.