She wondered whether it would be appropriate to go on publishing frivolous, pleasure-giving books in wartime, but was assured by her publishers, Hodder and Stoughton
, that it was, and that they would need the...
Publishing
Mary Stewart
This work was serialized in Woman's Journal before book publication. An American edition appeared in 1955.
MS
took her title from a folk-song which runs: Madam, will you walk? /...
Publishing
Mary Stewart
Having always wanted to write a historical novel, MS
later recalled that the idea for The Crystal Cave came from a story in an early history of King Arthur
: Geoffrey of Monmouth
's twelfth-century...
Publishing
Catherine Carswell
The Hodder and Stoughton
reader's report was damning: a single characteristic, satire on a good Christian lady (the heroine's aunt), was in such bad taste as to doom the book to failure. CC
replied defiantly...
Publishing
Richmal Crompton
In a delicate tug-of-war, the editor of the first magazine to publish the William stories also accepted and paid for a number of short stories for adults written by RC
, some of which were...
This moment of inspiration (something she had had for Young Anne and They Knew Mr. Knight, but not for High Wages or The Priory) made her long to get writing.
Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph, 1966.
96
But the...
Publishing
Jean Plaidy
She made this pseudonym by combining her two birthnames, Eleanor and Alice (or perhaps Eleanor as her own with Alice as her mother's), and then taking her mother's maiden name, Tate. She issued five more...
Publishing
Emmuska Baroness Orczy
The local post office refused to take it for delivery on its way to England, but (the USA being still a non-belligerent), she was able to send it to Washington through the good offices of...
Publishing
Annie S. Swan
Sir William Robertson Nicoll
, friend of ASS
and power behind the The British Weekly: A Journal of Social and Christian Progress (which was published at London by Hodder and Stoughton
), proposed to her...
Publishing
Gwen Moffat
GM
changed her publisher from Hodder and Stoughton
to Gollancz
for Survival Count, subtitled a personal journey towards conservation.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Four years after her first novel, RMA
issued the first of her nearly 140 titles published in a highly successful working relationship with Hodder and Stoughton
, Richard Chatterton, V.C..
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Publishing
Ruby M. Ayres
In a year in which RMA
published no fewer than twelve novel titles in London through Hodder and Stoughton
, she also published in New York, through W. J. Watt
, The Uphill Road.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Timeline
June 1868: The publishing firm of Hodder and Stoughton...