KM
's The Garden Party and Other Stories was published by Constable
.
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press.
417
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.
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...
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.
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.
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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
.
Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row.
310-13
The book relates Linke's recent travels in France, including...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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Timeline
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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.
