Michael Joseph

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
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.
5
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 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.
6: 373, 411n3
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 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.
69
Mortimer, Penelope. About Time Too: 1940-1978. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
50
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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.
56
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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 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
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TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
2568 (20 April 1951): 243
Textual Production Doris Lessing
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...

Writing climate item

5 September 1935

Michael Joseph Limited was registered under the directorship of Joseph , Norman Collins , and Victor Gollancz , who also provided space at his publishing house at 14 Henrietta Street, London.

Texts

Allingham, Margery. Dance of the Years. Michael Joseph, 1943.
Allingham, Margery. The Oaken Heart. Michael Joseph, 1941.
Brooke-Rose, Christine. Between. Michael Joseph, 1968.
Brooke-Rose, Christine. Out. Michael Joseph, 1964.
Brooke-Rose, Christine. Such. Michael Joseph, 1966.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson, and Graham Rust. The Secret Garden. Michael Joseph, 1986.
Dane, Clemence. London Has a Garden. Michael Joseph, 1964.
Desmond, Adrian. Huxley: The Devil’s Disciple. Michael Joseph, 1994.
Dickens, Monica. Cobbler’s Dream. Michael Joseph, 1963.
Dickens, Monica. Flowers on the Grass. Michael Joseph, 1949.
Dickens, Monica. Joy and Josephine. Michael Joseph, 1948.
Dickens, Monica. Man Overboard. Michael Joseph, 1958.
Dickens, Monica. Mariana. Michael Joseph, 1940.
Dickens, Monica. My Turn to Make the Tea. Michael Joseph, 1951.
Dickens, Monica. No More Meadows. Michael Joseph, 1953.
Dickens, Monica. One Pair of Feet. Michael Joseph, 1942.
Dickens, Monica. One Pair of Hands. Michael Joseph, 1939.
Dickens, Monica. The Angel in the Corner. Michael Joseph, 1956.
Dickens, Monica. The Fancy. Michael Joseph, 1943.
Dickens, Monica. The Heart of London. Michael Joseph, 1961.
Dickens, Monica. The Winds of Heaven. Michael Joseph, 1955.
Dickens, Monica. Thursday Afternoons. Michael Joseph, 1945.
Dinesen, Isak. Anecdotes of Destiny. Michael Joseph, 1958.
Duffy, Maureen. “A Nightingale in Bloomsbury Square”. Factions, edited by Giles Gordon and Alex Hamilton, Michael Joseph, 1974, pp. 169-04.
Fairbairns, Zoë. Other Names. Michael Joseph, 1998.