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Friends, Associates | Storm Jameson | The two women were friends through the 1930s and their relationship became increasingly intimate after the death of Winifred Holtby on 29 September 1935. Brittain stayed with Jameson and Chapman the night after Holtby died... |
Textual Production | Elspeth Huxley | Macmillan
published EH
's biography of Hugh, third Baron Delamere
, unwisely Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins. 105 Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins. 109 |
Publishing | Elspeth Huxley | EH
's novel about Africans, Red Strangers (once planned as a biography), was published by Chatto and Windus
after Macmillan
refused to accept it unless she would cut the description of genital mutilation or female circumcision. Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins. 135-6 |
Publishing | Elspeth Huxley | |
Publishing | Elspeth Huxley | Harold Macmillan
argued that readers would find EH
's graphic description of this ceremony unfamiliar and abhorrent. She countered strongly that their feelings were not the point: her whole purpose, she said, was to present... |
Publishing | John Oliver Hobbes | She had first approached Macmillan
to publish the book, but they wanted the title changed and the last chapter revised. Hobbes refused, and approached Unwin's
, which (on the advice of its reader, Edward Garnett |
Textual Production | Thomas Hardy | |
Publishing | Thomas Hardy | TH
's first novel, The Poor Man and the Lady, was rejected in turn by Macmillan
(after reading by Alexander Macmillan
and John Morley
), by Chapman and Hall
(after reading by George Meredith |
Publishing | Augusta Gregory | |
Publishing | Kate Greenaway | Von Arnim had published her first and most famous book just two years before this, and was now in a financial crisis. This little book was printed in London and New York by Macmillan and Co. |
Publishing | Rumer Godden | A Breath of Air by RG
was published by Michael Joseph
(to whom, by contract, she still owed a book although she had moved to Macmillan
) after initial rejection by Spencer Curtis
but approbation... |
Publishing | Rumer Godden | It was begun in postwar London and finished at Arundel. Godden, Rumer. A House with Four Rooms. Macmillan. 69-70 |
Publishing | Rumer Godden | This novel also was written at Pollards in Buckinghamshire. RG
consulted the Chairman and Clerk of London's Metropolitan Juvenile Courts
, a police inspector of Bow Street
, the Governors and Secretary of the... |
Publishing | Julia Frankau | As usual for fiction, she published as Frank Danby. This novel's length (120,000 words) provoked Marie Belloc Lowndes
to joke about the episodes of jeopardy being recurrent. JF
feared in 1911 that Methuen
would... |
Publishing | Jessie Fothergill | Like Healey, this novel was sold outright to Henry S. King
; it was reprinted by Bentley
in 1891 and by Macmillan
in 1899. Crisp, Jane. Jessie Fothergill, 1851-1891: A Bibliography. Department of English, University of Queensland, p. 27 pp. 15 |
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