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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
entitled White Man's Country.
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.
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Publishing Elspeth Huxley
EH had travelled to Kenya in January 1933 for the purpose of research, staying with Glady at her eccentric household. She also worked in archives in England and interviewed Jan Smuts in South Africa...
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
TH dated his Late Lyrics and Earlier, with many other Verses, published this year with Macmillan .
Purdy, Richard Little. Thomas Hardy: A Bibliographical Study. Oxford University Press.
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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
The play was a reworking of a 1902 play by Yeats, Where There is Nothing, to which AG had contributed some dialogue.
Gregory, Augusta. Our Irish Theatre. G. P. Putnam’s Sons.
80-1
In 1908 it was published as a separate volume by Macmillan
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.
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It was the last novel owed to Little Brown under RG 's contract with them; after it, she says, Viking Presshad taken...
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.
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