The full title (appearing with square brackets) was The Oaken Heart [An Account of Life in an English Village Between 1938 and 1941]. It was published by Michael Joseph
. MA
said she wrote...
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.
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.
128
Her choice of title was over-ruled because her publisher mistakenly...
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.
Her new publisher, the firm of Michael Joseph
(in the person of her real friend Raleigh Trevelyan
), issued what was then regarded as the small print-run of three thousand copies.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
231
Brooke-Rose, Christine. Invisible Author: Last Essays. Ohio State University Press.
128
The novel...
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
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...
Textual Production
Rumer Godden
RG
published with Michael Joseph
a long poem entitled In Noah's Ark: despite proof-reading by her and at least three others, copies had serious errors in words, lines, and paragraphs; the whole edition was withdrawn.
Simpson, Hassell A. Rumer Godden. Twayne.
11
Godden, Rumer. A House with Four Rooms. Macmillan.
54
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...
Textual Production
Susan Hill
The anthology of British women writers she published in 1990 with Michael Joseph
as The Parchment Moon: An Anthology of Modern Women's Short Stories was reprinted the following year as The Penguin Book of Modern...
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...
Textual Production
Doris Lessing
DL
published with Michael Joseph
her earliest collection of short stories, This Was the Old Chief's Country.
British Book News. British Council.
(1951): 632
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.
DL
attempted to escape what she saw as the prison of her reputation by publishing, through Michael Joseph
, a novel while concealing her identity: The Diary of a Good Neighbour by Jane Somers...
Reception
Doris Lessing
Again published by Michael Joseph
, Five: Short Novels won the Somerset Maugham Award.
Timeline
5 September 1935: Michael Joseph Limited was registered under...