Godden, Rumer. A House with Four Rooms. Macmillan.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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... |
Literary responses | Rumer Godden | 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. Godden, Rumer. A House with Four Rooms. Macmillan. 115 |
Publishing | Rumer Godden | 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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
Occupation | Constance Smedley | 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... |
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. Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press. 959 |
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