Spencer Curtis Brown

Standard Name: Brown, Spencer Curtis

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Textual Production Norah Lofts
NL began using the pseudonym Peter Curtis once she started writing crime novels, as she did not want to lose readers who preferred her historical fiction. She formed her masculine pseudonym by combining the name...
Textual Production Elizabeth Bowen
Having had her style criticised in her previous novel for convolution, she appealed to Spencer Curtis Brown to point out any examples in the new book, to prevent her from developing stylistic tricks; initial criticism...
Textual Production Elizabeth Bowen
She wrote this play for a performance in Limerick Cathedral. (An early version had already been given in the village church at Hambledon in Hampshire.)
Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf.
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More important historically was a...
Textual Production Githa Sowerby
It ran for sixty-three performances, and was published by Samuel French in 1913.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
In March 1913 it ran at the Empire Theatre in New York under the title Jinny.
Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press.
959
GS wrote to her...
Textual Production Ivy Compton-Burnett
After her previous book's success, she had acquired an agent (David Higham of Curtis Brown , who also handled Rose Macaulay and Vita Sackville-West ). In later years she dealt with Spencer Curtis Brown
Textual Production Rumer Godden
Theatre rights to Black Narcissus were sold within a month of its appearance. A script was commissioned in the USA which RG found farcical.
Godden, Rumer. A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep. Macmillan.
137
Her agent, Spencer Curtis Brown , suggested that she should...
Textual Production Rumer Godden
She dedicated it To Jon and the spirit of little Joss, who was born there, and used an epigraph translated from Chinese by Arthur Waley .
Godden, Rumer. Rungli-Rungliot. P. Davies.
prelims
It was in fact her sister Jon who...
Textual Production Rumer Godden
RG found this negotiation among publishers traumatic. She had updated Shakespeare 's The Tempest in the spirit of the entertainments which Graham Greene used to intersperse among his serious novels. Spencer Curtis thought the story...
Textual Production Elizabeth Bowen
Pictures and Conversations, a last collection of short pieces by EB , was published posthumously in New York, edited by Spencer Curtis Brown .
Sellery, J’nan M., and William O. Harris. Elizabeth Bowen: A Bibliography. University of Texas.
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Hoogland, Renée C. Elizabeth Bowen: A Reputation in Writing. New York University Press.
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Reception Rumer Godden
RG herself had misgivings about Gypsy, Gypsy, but her publisher Peter Llewelyn Davies wrote of being enchanted by the story.
Godden, Rumer. A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep. Macmillan.
143
Spencer Curtis Brown pointed out that it owed a debt to D. H. Lawrence
Publishing Mary Renault
MR 's London agent, Spencer Curtis Brown , transferred her for this book to a younger colleague, Juliet O'Hea . O'Hea proved to be very sensitive and sympathetic to MR , and eventually became her...
Publishing Rumer Godden
A Breath of Air by RG was published by Michael Joseph (to whom, by contract, she still owed a book although she had moved to Macmillan ) after initial rejection by Spencer Curtis but approbation...
Publishing Rumer Godden
She wrote this novel, she said, in her father-in-law's surgery in a London suburb, pregnant, while her first husband enjoyed his leave on golf-courses up and down Britain. Her pekinese puppy (a breed which...
Publishing Hélène Barcynska
It is often referred to as her first novel (presumably in part because The Little Mother Who Sits at Home was presented as non-fiction).
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
55957 (11 March 1964): 15
She remembered finishing it with her...
Publishing Hélène Barcynska
Pseudonyms, and their financial implications, ended HB 's first marriage. Armiger Barclay wanted her to write not as Sandys, under which name she reaped her own profits, but as Barcynska, which funnelled her earnings to...

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Brown, Spencer Curtis, and Elizabeth Bowen. “Foreword”. Pictures and Conversations, Alfred A. Knopf, 1975, p. vii - xlii.