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.
Publishing
Naomi Jacob
NJ
's novel Strange Beginning was published by Robert Hale
after, to her extreme displeasure, her faithful agent Raymond Savage
informed her that Hutchinson
no longer wanted her on their list.
Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin).
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Publishing
Naomi Jacob
Savage
was forced to tell her, from Hutchinson
, that her sales had slumped and that her mode of writing was considered out of date. She blamed the messenger for the news, and never forgave...
Textual Production
Sheila Kaye-Smith
SKS
published (in Hale
's Regional Books series) Weald of Kent and Sussex.
British Book News. British Council.
(1953): 610
Textual Production
Margery Lawrence
ML
's regular publisher, Robert Hale
, printed the first of her occult-detective stories featuring the detective Miles Pennoyer: Number Seven, Queer Street.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Lawrence, Margery. Number Seven, Queer Street. Mycroft and Moran.
prelims
Publishing
Jean Plaidy
Between 1953 and 1960, she published seven more novels under this pseudonym. She stayed with her original publisher, Robert Hale
, for all these books.
Mussell, Kay. Twentieth-Century Romance and Gothic Writers. Editors Vinson, James and Daniel Lane Kirkpatrick, Macmillan.
Textual Production
Alison Uttley
AU
's Buckinghamshire appeared, after much vicissitude, in Hale
's County Books series; she called it an anthology because her account of crafts, places, wildlife, and so on drew heavily on other works.
This had been commissioned in July 1944 by publishers Robert Hale
. AU
found it hard to do, but worse was to come: the destruction by fire of the proof copies at the printer's in...