TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012].
3273 (19 November 1964): 1033
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Material Conditions of Writing | Christine Brooke-Rose | After a brief hiatus caused by a severe illness, CBR
published the first of her experimental novels, Out, with publisher Michael Joseph
, since her previous publisher refused to accept it. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. 3273 (19 November 1964): 1033 Birch, Sarah. Christine Brooke-Rose and Contemporary Fiction. Clarendon Press, 1994. 230 OCLC WorldCat. |
Publishing | Norah Lofts | By this time her publisher was the prestigious and discriminating Michael Joseph
. |
Publishing | Norah Lofts | The following year she gave one of her recent subjects a book to herself: Esther, whose New York edition appeared in 1950 and its London edition (from Michael Joseph
) in 1951. The popular-reprint... |
Publishing | Margery Allingham | She based it on a family story of her forebears: an early-nineteenth-century John Allingham who had a second family by Charlotte Duncan, in addition to his legitimate family. Martin, Richard. Ink in Her Blood: The Life and Crime Fiction of Margery Allingham. UMI Research Press, 1988. 133 |
Publishing | Christine Brooke-Rose | This was her last novel published by Raleigh Trevelyan
of Michael Joseph
—who was, she believed, fired with a golden handshake for accepting it. Brooke-Rose, Christine. Invisible Author: Last Essays. Ohio State University Press, 2002. 128 |
Publishing | Monica Dickens | When, however, on the same occasion of their first meeting, MD
told Charles Pick
she had been working as a cook-general, he (and later his employer, Michael Joseph
) were eager for her to write... |
Publishing | Vita Sackville-West | It was reprinted by Michael Joseph
in 1951. |
Publishing | Monica Dickens | As she listened to the stories of people living in squalor and desperation she realised, I lived by the pen, and so I must eventually stop looking and listening and go home and shut myself... |
Publishing | Rumer Godden | A Breath of Air by RG
was published by Michael Joseph
(to whom, by contract, she still owed a book although she had moved to Macmillan
) after initial rejection by Spencer Curtis
but approbation... |
Publishing | Dorothy Whipple | DW
's first story written at and about Barton Seagrave, the place to which she and her husband retired, was about a pretty girl she had watched from her window coping lightly with marriage... |
Publishing | Rumer Godden | This book came out with a new and bigger publisher, Michael Joseph
. When the Ladies' Home Journal bought the serial rights for $7,500 in autumn 1945, RG
's postwar poverty was substantially alleviated. But... |
Publishing | Mary Lavin | The London edition followed from Michael Joseph
the next year, with a Reader's Union
edition two years after that. There are several modern editions. A Town House
paperback of 1996 has a new introduction by... |
Publishing | Doris Lessing | Michael Joseph
had been her usual publisher in the 1950s and 60s. Her current hardback publisher, Jonathan Cape
, and her current paperback publisher, had rejected this novel when she submitted it under her pseudonym... |
Reception | Vita Sackville-West | Leonard Woolf
(without Virginia to consult with, but with the full support of John Lehmann
) turned down Grand Canyon. So did Heinemann
, for the same reasons: the potential blow to British morale... |
Reception | Doris Lessing | Again published by Michael Joseph
, Five: Short Novels won the Somerset Maugham Award. |