Constable

After long-drawn-out struggles with publishers over its sexual aspects, NM succeeded in publishing (with Constable ) her first novel with a contemporary setting, We Have Been Warned.

For The Three BrontësMS changed her publisher to Hutchinson , who had offered her a generous advance on her next three novels. She probably felt that Constable had not made enough effort on the...

The publisher Robinson initially encouraged EI to write her memoirs. She worked at them for years in old age, sending them to friends and publishers for comment. Publishers proved difficult: they feared scandal, yet were...

In 1998 GM tried two new publishers: Severn House for A Wreath of Dead Moths (about investigating the legacy of a plane crash in the mountains of Scotland soon after the second world war) and...

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...

This had been rejected by such publishers as Duckworth and Fisher Unwin before it was accepted, with revisions, by Michael Sadleir at Constable . Jameson had sent her typescript to Constable under her husband 's...

A novel entitled A Wilful Widow, which appeared in 1913, is evidently by EMM . Difficulties with George Allen had apparently caused her to change publishers (for the second time) to Constable . The...

Robin Baird-Smith , editorial director of Constable , had laid on interviews and radio and tv appearances for Spark in Britain. Spark travelled with Jardine as far as the Channel ferry, but then said she...

SJ planned to publish The Lovely Ship with Constable . However, when Michael Sadleir requested revisions and offered only a two-hundred-pound advance, she moved to Heinemann , which gave her a four-hundred-pound advance and published...

Her current publisher, Colburn , offered her a thousand pounds for this book. She thought she could get more, and went to Constable , who, however, turned it down. The junior partner doubted her capacity...

In 1942 to July 1943 she was working on (and completed) a novel called Never and Always, set in a seaside town, in which the central female character, Emily Hemingway, in her early thirties...

ST provided the introduction to Tale Without End, 1934, the first book by her friend the German writer and activist Lilo Linke . The book relates Linke's recent travels in France, including...

The contents of Murry's first journal edition were selected with an eye to keeping Mansfield acceptable to the public. Her biographer Alpers says it sealed her in porcelain for twenty years.Willa Cather ...

The Times reported that a libel action by Aleister Crowley had compelled the publisher Constable to halt all sales of NH 's Laughing Torso. Crowley asserted that anecdotes therein about himself had not a...

NM approached Victor Gollancz as an alternative to Cape; he seriously admired the book but declined it for fear of offending many of my best friends and damaging his effectiveness as a publisher of...