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.
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But the...
Textual Production
Viola Tree
It seems that the play was never published, and nothing is known of the photoplay, although some plates from it are included in one New York edition of the novel.
Eleven months before she died ASS
published Who Are the Heathen? with Hodder and Stoughton
; her one other novel this year was The Family Name (with J. Leng
in The People's Friend Library)...
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...
Textual Production
Annie S. Swan
ASS
also used her new identity David Lyall for a large number of book titles, most of them novels after the first collection of essays. She published Lyall novels serially in the Leisure Hour Monthly...
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Annie S. Swan
In this year she probably put out a tally of five books (ignoring reprints and remembering that by no means all her books bore a date). Apart from A Maid of the Isles they were...
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.
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
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Rosemary Sutcliff
RS
reviewed for the Times Literary Supplement and other periodicals. She was employed by Hodder and Stoughton
to choose the titles for their Library of Great Historical Novels series (in which she included Bryher
's...
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...
Textual Production
Githa Sowerby
GS
began her short career as dramatist by writing plays for children: Little Plays for Little People appeared in 1910, and a new edition of it under the title Little Plays for School and Home...
Reception
Felicia Skene
Although FS
is not widely known today, some of her books have been reprinted in the last twenty years. A selection of her work is available online from the Victorian Women Writers Project
.
Willett, Perry, and Perry Willett, editors. “Victorian Women Writers Project”. Indiana University.
The...
Timeline
June 1868: The publishing firm of Hodder and Stoughton...