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, 1944.
prelims
It was in fact her sister Jon who...
Literary responses
Rumer Godden
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...
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, 1989.
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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...
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.