She wrote this while still a student. Its germ lay in sessions of tumbler-turning at the family's Essex holiday home in summer 1921. In this form of spiritualism the assembled company rest one finger each...
Reception
Margery Allingham
MA
called this novel a thundering piece of bad taste
Martin, Richard. Ink in Her Blood: The Life and Crime Fiction of Margery Allingham. UMI Research Press.
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and told a friend that she had written it really to recover me from my father's sudden death and grim little funeral.
Martin, Richard. Ink in Her Blood: The Life and Crime Fiction of Margery Allingham. UMI Research Press.
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For...
Publishing
Ruby M. Ayres
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.
Publishing
Ruby M. Ayres
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...
Textual Production
Ruby M. Ayres
RMA
published four volumes of short stories, from The Shadow Man and Other Stories in 1919 to Autumn Fires, Two Love Stories in 1951. Of these only the last one was issued through her usual...
Hodder and Stoughton
actually published two books entitled The Story of Topsy by Cable and French this year, with different pagination and format. Only one had the subtitle, and only that one is listed by...
Textual Production
Mildred Cable
MC
's and Francesca French's second and final children's book, Grace, Child of the Gobi, was published by Hodder and Stoughton
.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“Hodder and Stoughton Records 1875-1914”. Columbia University in the City of New York, Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
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...
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...
Timeline
June 1868: The publishing firm of Hodder and Stoughton...