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
Mitchison, Naomi. You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. Gollancz.
177
and damaging his effectiveness as a publisher of...
Reception
Katherine Mansfield
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.
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press.
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...
Publishing
E. Nesbit
Biographer Julia Briggs
believes that the original story was stimulated by EN
's writing about her own schooldays for the Girls' Own Paper.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
The composite book of tales appeared in instalments in The Windsor...
Publishing
Jean Rhys
Her first publisher, Jonathan Cape
, turned down the novel as being too depressing, and Hamish Hamilton
wanted to cut it extensively. They were probably reacting particularly to her depicting an abortion. Constable
finally agreed...
Publishing
Jane Loudon
She dedicated Gardening for Ladies to her husband
. Its title-page mentions The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Annuals and the introduction is dated 21 May. It was hugely successful, selling 1,350 copies on the very...
Publishing
Helen Waddell
The book was related to her highly successful lecture series of the same title given at Oxford the previous year, under the auspices of Lady Margaret Hall
, and based on research in the Bibliothèque Nationale
Publishing
Anna Seward
AS
had been in some kind of publishing negotiation with Constable
of Edinburgh for several years. Archibald Constable
visited her in April 1807. After this he consulted John Murray
in London, who advised him against...
Publishing
Rose Macaulay
Many of the poems here, according to a friend, were written on trains.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape.
She had herself carefully revised her twelve manuscript volumes of copies, and had left them to a publisher. Scott (himself among her correspondents) said he would not help to perpetuate such gossip as the letters...
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.
The date is that of the Times...
Publishing
May Sinclair
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...
Publishing
Elizabeth Inchbald
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...
Publishing
Gwen Moffat
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...
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Texts
Jameson, Storm, editor. Challenge to Death. Constable, 1934.
Jameson, Storm. The Pot Boils. Constable, 1919.
Jameson, Storm. Three Kingdoms. Constable, 1926.
Jenkins, Elizabeth. A Silent Joy. Constable, 1992.
Jesse, F. Tennyson, and Harold Marsh Harwood. London Front. Constable, 1940.
Jesse, F. Tennyson. The Dragon in the Heart. Constable, 1956.
Jones, Kathleen. Catherine Cookson: The Biography. Constable, 1999.
Jullian, Philippe. Oscar Wilde. Translator Wyndham, Violet, Constable, 1969.
Lavin, Mary. A Family Likeness and Other Stories. Constable, 1985.
Lavin, Mary. A Memory and Other Stories. Constable, 1972.
Lavin, Mary. Happiness and Other Stories. Constable, 1969.
Lavin, Mary. In the Middle of the Fields and Other Stories. Constable, 1967.
Lavin, Mary. The Stories of Mary Lavin. Constable, 1985.
Macaulay, Rose. Three Days. Constable, 1919.
Macaulay, Rose. What Not: A Prophetic Comedy. Constable, 1918.
MacCarthy, Mary. A Nineteenth-Century Childhood. Constable, 1985.
Mansfield, Katherine. Bliss and Other Stories. Constable, 1920.
Mansfield, Katherine. Something Childish and Other Stories. Editor Murry, John Middleton, Constable, 1924, http://U of A HSS.
Mayor, Flora Macdonald. The Squire’s Daughter. Constable, 1929.
Meynell, Alice. Ceres’ Runaway. Constable, 1909.
Miles, Susan. Blind Men Crossing a Bridge. Constable, 1934.
Mitchison, Naomi. The Fourth Pig. Constable, 1936.
Moffat, Gwen. Gone Feral. Constable, 2007.
Moore, Edith Mary. A Wilful Widow. Constable, 1913.
Murdoch, Iris. “Existentialists and Mystics”. Essays and Poems Presented to Lord David Cecil, edited by William Wallace Robson, Constable, 1970.