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...
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...
Reception
Berta Ruck
Publishers Hodder and Stoughton
issued The 'Berta Ruck
' Birthday Book: an indication of the degree to which she had already become a household name.
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
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.
Publishing
Edith Mary Moore
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...
Publishing
Georgette Heyer
It was in this year that GH
signed contracts with Heinemann
for three historical romances and with Hodder and Stoughton
for four detective stories.
qtd. in
Haas, Lidija. “Wholly Allergic”. London Review of Books, Vol.
34
, No. 16, 30 Aug. 2012, pp. 29-30.
29
This particular novel appeared in the United States as Merely Murder.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
191
Publishing
Edith Mary Moore
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...
Publishing
Rosemary Sutcliff
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.
Corelli, Marie, and Arthur Severn. The Devil’s Motor. Hodder and Stoughton, 1910.
Crompton, Richmal. Blue Flames. Hodder and Stoughton, 1930.
Crompton, Richmal. The House. Hodder and Stoughton, 1926.
Cunard, Nancy. Sublunary. Hodder and Stoughton, 1923.
Donald, Robert. The Imperial Press Conference in Canada. Hodder and Stoughton, 1920, http://http://archive.org/stream/imperialpresscon00donarich#page/n0/mode/2up.
Duffy, Maureen. I Want to Go to Moscow. Hodder and Stoughton, 1973.
Duffy, Maureen. The Erotic World of Faery. Hodder and Stoughton, 1972.
Duncan, Sara Jeannette. Two in a Flat. Hodder and Stoughton, 1908.
Edginton, May. The Sin of Eve. Hodder and Stoughton, 1913.
Furlong, Monica. C of E: The State It’s in. Hodder and Stoughton, 2000.
Furlong, Monica. Christian Uncertainties. Hodder and Stoughton, 1975.
Furlong, Monica. Puritan’s Progress, A Study of John Bunyan. Hodder and Stoughton, 1975.
Furlong, Monica. The End of Our Exploring. Hodder and Stoughton, 1973.
Gibbons, Stella. A Pink Front Door. Hodder and Stoughton, 1959.
Gibbons, Stella. The Charmers. Hodder and Stoughton, 1965.
Gibbons, Stella. The Shadow of a Sorcerer. Hodder and Stoughton, 1955.
Gibbons, Stella. The Snow-Woman. Hodder and Stoughton, 1969.
Gibbons, Stella. The Wolves Were in the Sledge. Hodder and Stoughton, 1964.
Gibbons, Stella. The Woods in Winter. Hodder and Stoughton, 1970.
Gibbons, Stella. White Sand and Grey Sand. Hodder and Stoughton, 1958.
Giberne, Agnes, and W. F. Tucker Hamilton. A Lady of England. Hodder and Stoughton, 1895.
Goudge, Elizabeth, and Rose Dobbs. At the Sign of the Dolphin: An Elizabeth Goudge Anthology. Hodder and Stoughton, 1947.
Goudge, Elizabeth. Green Dolphin Country. Hodder and Stoughton, 1944.
Goudge, Elizabeth. The Child from the Sea. Hodder and Stoughton, 1970.
Goudge, Elizabeth, and A. R. Whitear. The Dean’s Watch. Hodder and Stoughton, 1960.
