Constable

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Biographer Julia Briggs believes that the original story was stimulated by EN 's writing about her own schooldays for the Girls' Own Paper. The composite book of tales appeared in instalments in The Windsor...

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...

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...

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...