Michael Joseph

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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...
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...
Textual Production Penelope Mortimer
Choosing Michael Joseph as her publisher, PM issued her second novel, A Villa in Summer.
Lord, Graham. John Mortimer, The Devil’s Advocate. The Unauthorised Biography. Orion.
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Mortimer, Penelope. About Time Too: 1940-1978. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
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Textual Production Penelope Mortimer
PM published her third novel, The Bright Prison, again with Michael Joseph , again dedicated to her husband, John Mortimer .
Mortimer, Penelope. About Time Too: 1940-1978. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
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Textual Production Vita Sackville-West
VSW published with Michael Joseph a volume entitled Country Notes, a collection of her articles from the New Statesman and Nation.
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press.
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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...
Publishing Vita Sackville-West
It was reprinted by Michael Joseph in 1951.
Textual Production Vita Sackville-West
The poem was published by Michael Joseph at eight shillings and sixpence, with modest decorations by Broom Lynne .
Sackville-West, Vita. The Garden. Michael Joseph.
prelims
Textual Production Gillian Slovo
GS published through Michael Joseph the first of her novels dealing with South African racial politics, the family saga Ties of Blood.
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Textual Production Gillian Slovo
GS moved to the Women's Press for her next two detective novels, Death by Analysis (1 October 1986), which had a new edition in 1997, and Death Comes Staccato (1 September 1987), which was then...
Textual Production Dorothy Wellesley
DW 's Desert Wells, published by Michael Joseph , was another later poetry volume from which she selected for Early Light, 1955, her final collection.
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Wellesley, Dorothy. Early Light. R. Hart-Davis.
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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...

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Texts

Farjeon, Eleanor. Brave Old Woman. Michael Joseph, 1941.
Farjeon, Eleanor. First and Second Love. Michael Joseph, 1947.
Farjeon, Eleanor. Humming Bird. Michael Joseph, 1936.
Farjeon, Eleanor. Love Affair. Michael Joseph, 1947.
Farjeon, Eleanor. Silver-Sand and Snow. Michael Joseph, 1951.
Farjeon, Eleanor et al. The Starry Floor. Michael Joseph, 1949.
Farjeon, Eleanor et al. Then There Were Three. Michael Joseph, 1958.
Hill, Susan. Family. Michael Joseph, 1989.
Johnson, Pamela Hansford. A Summer to Decide. Michael Joseph, 1948.
Johnson, Pamela Hansford. An Avenue of Stone. Michael Joseph, 1947.
Johnson, Pamela Hansford. The Trojan Brothers. Michael Joseph, 1944.
Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph, 1986.
Lessing, Doris. A Proper Marriage. Michael Joseph, 1954.
Lessing, Doris. A Ripple from the Storm. Michael Joseph, 1958.
Lessing, Doris. Collected African Stories. Michael Joseph, 1973.
Lessing, Doris. Collected Stories. Michael Joseph, 1978.
Lessing, Doris. Five: Short Novels. Michael Joseph, 1953.
Lessing, Doris. If the Old Could . . . Michael Joseph, 1984.
Lessing, Doris. Martha Quest. Michael Joseph, 1952.
Lessing, Doris. Particularly Cats. Michael Joseph, 1967.
Lessing, Doris. Play with a Tiger. Michael Joseph, 1962.
Lessing, Doris. The Diary of a Good Neighbour. Michael Joseph, 1983.
Lessing, Doris. The Golden Notebook. Michael Joseph, 1962.
Lessing, Doris. The Grass is Singing. Michael Joseph, 1950.
Lessing, Doris. This Was the Old Chief’s Country. Michael Joseph, 1951.