Spencer Curtis Brown

Quite early in 1940 (after a spell as a writer and another collecting scrap iron for armaments) MD joined the Red Cross as a VAD (that is, a Voluntary Aid Detachment volunteer nurse), then became...

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

Pictures and Conversations, a last collection of short pieces by EB , was published posthumously in New York, edited by Spencer Curtis Brown .

EB suffered from recurrent bouts of bronchitis and a chronic smoker's cough. In 1972, she was diagnosed with lung cancer and underwent radium treatment. She lost her voice and had considerable difficulty breathing. She was...

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...

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.) More important historically was a...

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). She remembered finishing it with her...

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...

By about now, says HB , a serial by Oliver Sandys could command two hundred pounds for its first printing, and the book publisher would offer an advance of another two hundred. While she enjoyed...