Hodder and Stoughton

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 July 1912 the manuscript of this novel had received a first prize of £600 in a competition held by Hodder and Stoughton . It was particularly highly praised by Beatrice Harraden , who was...

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 . The...

Publishers Hodder and Stoughton issued The 'Berta Ruck ' Birthday Book: an indication of the degree to which she had already become a household name.

MA called this novel a thundering piece of bad taste and told a friend that she had written it really to recover me from my father's sudden death and grim little funeral. For...

The book appeared in two editions this year: from BH 's new publisher, Hodder and Stoughton , and from Tauchnitz . So did her Rachel, 1926, and her final novel.

NL 's writing earned a high degree of popular success. Her books have sold more than one million copies. Many were reprinted in the 1970s by Corgi , Fawcett , Hodder and Stoughton , Manor

The British Library holds RNC 's correspondence with two of her publishers, Bentley and Macmillan , while Columbia University , New York, holds her correspondence with Hodder and Stoughton .