Spencer Curtis Brown

It ran for sixty-three performances, and was published by Samuel French in 1913. In March 1913 it ran at the Empire Theatre in New York under the title Jinny.GS wrote to her...

In her capacity as European representative for the American Everybody's Magazine (edited by John O'Hara Cosgrave ), CS set out to woo various authors including Kenneth Grahame . She writes that she was successful in...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Its first readers loved this book: these included retiring literary agent Curtis Brown , his son Spencer Curtis Brown , and the publishers Peter and Nico Davies (who called it without doubt a masterpiece and...

Theatre rights to Black Narcissus were sold within a month of its appearance. A script was commissioned in the USA which RG found farcical. Her agent, Spencer Curtis Brown , suggested that she should...

RG herself had misgivings about Gypsy, Gypsy, but her publisher Peter Llewelyn Davies wrote of being enchanted by the story.Spencer Curtis Brown pointed out that it owed a debt to D. H. Lawrence

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 . It was in fact her sister Jon who...

This was one of RG 's great successes. Her agent Spencer Curtis Brown said of the central idea, [y]ou do go out of the way to make things difficult. A little boy complained that she...

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...

This book was a joint Book-of-the-Month Club choice in the USA, and earned RG about $20,000. Spencer Curtis concluded he had been wrong to condemn it; but she feared he might have been right.

RG 's peppery agent, Spencer Curtis Brown , found it hard to take her second marriage and eventually had a fist-fight with James Haynes-Dixon outside the Ritz Grill in London. After this they did...

In 1954 SG became concerned that her literary career was running down. At the instigation of her friend and fellow novelist Elizabeth Jenkins , she enlisted a new literary agent, Curtis Brown , who helped...