Constable

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Textual Production George Bernard Shaw
GBS 's political tract The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism was published by Constable .
“Advertisement for George Bernard Shaw: ’The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism’”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1375, p. 411.
411
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production May Sinclair
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Helen Waddell
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes several of HW 's relationships with older men (like Gregory Smith , George Saintsbury , and Otto Kyllmann , chairman of Constable ) as platonic love affairs.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Kyllmann
Employer Helen Waddell
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...

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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.
Sinclair, May. Kitty Tailleur. Constable, 1908.