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
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
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by her and at least three others, copies had serious errors in words, lines, and paragraphs; the whole edition was withdrawn.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.
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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
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...
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.
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
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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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...
Textual Production
Margery Allingham
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...
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
Christine Brooke-Rose
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...
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
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.
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.
Timeline
5 September 1935: Michael Joseph Limited was registered under...
