Constable

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Elizabeth Bowen
EB published her third collection, Joining Charles and Other Stories, with a new publisher, Constable .
Sellery, J’nan M., and William O. Harris. Elizabeth Bowen: A Bibliography. University of Texas.
29-30
Publishing Anne Grant
Among her 3,000 subscribers were Joanna Baillie , Felicia Hemans , Robert Southey , William Wordsworth , Lady Bessborough , her sister Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , the minor poet Lady Dick , Elizabeth Hamilton
Reception Nina Hamnett
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...
Textual Production Beatrice Harraden
BH is said to have devoted only an hour and a half each day to her writing, allowing it to encroach no further than this on her life.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
In 1930 she was awarded an annual...
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 Storm Jameson
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...
Publishing Storm Jameson
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...
Publishing Storm Jameson
ST provided the introduction to Tale Without End, 1934, the first book by her friend the German writer and activist Lilo Linke .
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row.
310-13
The book relates Linke's recent travels in France, including...
Friends, Associates Henrietta Camilla Jenkin
During these last years many friends, both from Edinburgh and from earlier times in HCJ 's life, remained faithful visitors or letter-writers: these included members of the Constable publishing family, John Ruffini , and Vernon Lee .
Stevenson, Robert Louis, and Fleeming Jenkin. “Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin”. Papers, Literary, Scientific, &c., edited by Sir Sidney Colvin et al., Longmans, Green, p. 1: xi - clxx.
cxlvii
Textual Production F. Tennyson Jesse
FTJ 's next and final novel, The Dragon in the Heart, A Love Story, was published by Constable .
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.
Literary responses F. Tennyson Jesse
The New Yorker described the letters as having vigour, clarity, humour and elegance, and found FTJ and her husband a tough pair of gentle writers.
Colenbrander, Joanna. A Portrait of Fryn. A. Deutsch.
213
In London, Pamela Hansford Johnson called the...
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...
Employer Rose Macaulay
After the war, RM went to work as a reader of fiction for the Constable publishing house, who shortly afterwards published her books What Not and Three Days.
Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray.
178
Lefanu, Sarah. Rose Macaulay. Virago.
139
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.
138
Two were reprinted in Catherine Reilly 's Scars Upon My Heart, 1981. Sidgwick and Jackson , who had published RM
Textual Production Katherine Mansfield
KM 's Bliss and Other Stories was issued by Constable , a mainstream publisher.
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press.
415

Timeline

1811: Publisher John Murray in London began working...

Writing climate item

1811

Publisher John Murray in London began working with William Blackwood in Edinburgh.

January 1873: Women were recruited for compositors' jobs...

Writing climate item

January 1873

Women were recruited for compositors' jobs during the Scottish printers' strike which had begun 15 November 1872.

Texts

Acland, Alice. Caroline Norton. Constable, 1948.
Arnold, Ralph. The Unhappy Countess and her Grandson John Bowes. Constable, 1957.
Battiscombe, Georgina. Christina Rossetti: A Divided Life. Constable, 1981.
Beaumont, Agnes. The Narrative of the Persecutions of Agnes Beaumont in 1674. Editor Harrison, George Bagshawe, Constable, 1929.
Bell, E. Moberly. Flora Shaw. Constable, 1947.
Bell, E. Moberly. Josephine Butler: Flame of Fire. Constable, 1962.
Bell, E. Moberly. Storming the Citadel. Constable, 1953.
Blackett, Monica. The Mark of the Maker: A Portrait of Helen Waddell. Constable, 1973.
Blunt, Reginald, and Elizabeth Montagu. Mrs Montagu, "Queen of the Blues", Her Letters and Friendships from 1762 to 1800. Constable, 1923.
Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, and Lady Margaret Sackville. “Preface”. Selected Poems, Constable, 1919, p. i - x.
Bryher,. Development. Constable, 1920.
Cable, Mildred et al. A Desert Journal. Constable, 1934.
Cable, Mildred, and Francesca French. Through Jade Gate and Central Asia. Constable, 1927.
Cecil, Lord David. Early Victorian Novelists: Essays in Revaluation. Constable, 1934.
Cecil, Lord David, and Mary MacCarthy. “Foreword”. A Nineteenth-Century Childhood, Constable, 1985, pp. 5-13.
Hazlitt, William et al. “Introduction”. The Life of Thomas Holcroft, edited by Elbridge Colby, Constable, 1925, p. 1: xv - lv.
Coleridge, Mary Elizabeth. Gathered Leaves from the Prose of Mary E. Coleridge. Editor Sichel, Edith, Constable.
Colloms, Brenda. Charles Kingsley: The Lion of Eversley. Constable, 1975.
Critchley, Thomas Alan, and P. D. James. The Maul and the Pear Tree. Constable, 1971.
Crosland, Margaret. Beyond the Lighthouse. Constable, 1981.
H. D.,. Sea Garden. Constable, 1916.
Heyer, Georgette. The Black Moth. Constable, 1921.
Hickey, Emily. “On the Makings of English Blank Verse”. Nineteenth Century, Vol.
88
, Constable, pp. 1002-19.
Holcroft, Thomas, and William Hazlitt. The Life of Thomas Holcroft. Editor Colby, Elbridge, Constable, 1925.
Hubback, Catherine. The Rival Suitors. Constable, 1867.