MS
's The Divine Fire was published by Constable
; it was launched in the US in October.
Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
68
Textual Production
May Sinclair
MS
had driven herself to collapse by the work she put into it. Its appearance was delayed while she searched for a US publisher; Henry Holt
took it on although MS
refused to make the...
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...
Textual Production
Muriel Spark
MS
issued a novel which is also a murder mystery, Symposium, using her recently acquired English publisher, Constable
.
Rees, David. Muriel Spark, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, A Bibliography of their First Editions. Colophon Press.
18
Publishing
Muriel Spark
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...
Publishing
Muriel Spark
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...
Publishing
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
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...
Publishing
Elizabeth Taylor
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...
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
Textual Production
Helen Waddell
HW
provided (anonymously) the introduction to a Constable
reprint of A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke
, Daughter of Colley Cibber, one in a series they were issuing of rediscovered works...
Employer
Helen Waddell
In Michaelmas Term 1926 HW
had a second public academic success with an immensely popular course of lectures, contributed to the Oxford University programme by Lady Margaret Hall (LMH)
, under the title The Wandering...
Meanwhile, because members of Constable
's were serving in the armed forces, HW
went back to work in publishing. She became assistant editor of the Conservative monthly the Nineteenth Century and After (published by Constable)...
Other Life Event
Helen Waddell
During the second world war Constable
's publishing office, where HW
still worked, was bombed but quickly repaired.
Blackett, Monica. The Mark of the Maker: A Portrait of Helen Waddell. Constable.
152, 154
Her own house twice suffered damage from bombing: in 1944 and 1945. On the first...
Timeline
No timeline events available.
Texts
Rhys, Jean. Good Morning, Midnight. Constable.
Rhys, Jean. Voyage in the Dark. Constable.
Richardson, Dorothy. The Quakers Past and Present. Constable, 1914.
Ridley, Jasper. Henry VIII. Constable, 1984.
Robinson, A. Mary F. Victor Hugo. Constable, 1921.
Robinson, Jane. Pandora’s Daughters: The Secret History of Enterprising Women. Constable, 2002.
Royde-Smith, Naomi. Children in the Wood. Constable, 1928.
Royde-Smith, Naomi. The Island: a Love Story. Constable, 1930.
Royde-Smith, Naomi. The Lover. Constable, 1928.
Royde-Smith, Naomi. The Tortoiseshell Cat. Constable, 1925.
Sackville, Lady Margaret, and Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. Selected Poems. Constable, 1919.
Sadleir, Michael. Bulwer: A Panorama. Constable, 1931.
Sadleir, Michael. Things Past. Constable, 1944.
Scott, Sir Walter. The Letters of Sir Walter Scott. Editor Grierson, Sir Herbert John Clifford, Constable, 1937.
Sharpe, Henrietta. A Solitary Woman: A Life of Violet Trefusis. Constable, 1981.
Shaw, George Bernard. Fanny’s First Play. Constable, 1910.
Shaw, George Bernard. Heartbreak House, Great Catherine, and Playlets of the War. Constable, 1919.
Shaw, George Bernard. Saint Joan. Constable, 1923.
Shaw, Sir Napier. Forcasting Weather. Constable, 1911.
Shepherd, Nan. A Pass in the Grampians. Constable, 1933.
Shepherd, Nan. The Quarry Wood. Constable, 1928.
Shepherd, Nan. The Weatherhouse. Constable, 1930.
Coleridge, Mary Elizabeth. “Memoir and Editorial Materials”. Gathered Leaves from the Prose of Mary E. Coleridge, edited by Edith Sichel, Constable, 1910, pp. 1 - 44; various pages.
Sigerson, Dora, and Katharine Tynan. The Sad Years. Constable, 1918.