Hodder and Stoughton

Even before publication, Hodder and Stoughton called this novel almost perfect of its kind and said that they were proud to issue it. Later they advertised it as not only a...

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...

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.

EMM made yet another change of publisher when she issued her extraordinary novel Teddy R. N. D. through Hodder and Stoughton , priced at five shillings.

The Uphill Road does not seem to have appeared in England. One might suppose that Ayres chose this manner of publication because of her almost incredible productivity in this year. She continued to issue occasional...

For the first time in her career, EMM used the same publisher again after several years: her novel The Blind Marksman (apparently her last) was issued by Hodder and Stoughton at seven shillings and sixpence...

RS chose the England of King Arthur for an adult novel entitled Sword at Sunset, which her new publishers, Hodder and Stoughton , advertised as her greatest novel.

It was in this year that GH signed contracts with Heinemann for three historical romances and with Hodder and Stoughton for four detective stories. This particular novel appeared in the United States as Merely Murder.

Hodder and Stoughton turned it down, then Chapman and Hall , then Chatto and Windus , all with words of encouragement which BB felt too insecure to take in. These were later joined by Weidenfeld and Nicolson

RS also published five adult historical novels, two of them during this decade: Lady in Waiting, 1956, and The Rider of the White Horse, 1959. For these she chose a different publisher, Hodder and Stoughton

This was published in London by Hodder and Stoughton in 1958, but the US edition was the first to appear.

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? /...

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...

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...

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...