This launched her career as a publisher's editor. She later did the same kind of work for Weidenfeld and Nicolson
, 1962-3, and for Blackie
, 1964-7.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Friends, Associates
Angela Brazil
Visiting Polperro in Cornwall, AB
introduced herself by letter to Marie Stopes
, on the excuse that they shared the same publisher, Blackie
.
Freeman, Gillian. The Schoolgirl Ethic: The Life and Work of Angela Brazil. Allen Lane.
128
Friends, Associates
Marie Stopes
MS
corresponded for years, if occasionally, with the school-story writer Angela Brazil
, who sent the first letter on 22 May 1922, and apparently admired Stopes's work. They shared not only a publisher, Blackie
...
Publishing
Angela Brazil
AB
published The School at The Turrets; her biographer Gillian Freeman
dates from this year an increased pressure from publisher Blackie
for an annual high earner (though this did not require any increase in...
Publishing
Angela Brazil
She wrote and rewrote this story three times before sending it to a publisher. After putting out this novel Blackie
remained her primary publisher for most of her forty -years' output, and the head of...
Publishing
Angela Brazil
AB
resumed her writing for periodicals a few years after establishing herself as an author of school fiction books. She now chose children's periodicals: from 1909 or soon afterwards she contributed frequently to the well-known...
Publishing
Eva Figes
EF
published with Blackie
her version of a traditional story re-told for the young: The Musicians of Bremen, illustrated by Horst Lemke
.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
1970
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Publishing
Annie S. Swan
At twelve ASS
wrote a lyric of personal religious commitment, inspired by the preaching of the Rev. T. H. Walker
, which was printed in the Christian News.
Swan, Annie S. The Letters of Annie S. Swan. Editor Nicoll, Mildred Robertson, Hodder and Stoughton.
4
She began writing short stories...
Textual Production
Angela Brazil
Blackie and Son
, who had published AB
's first work in this genre, commissioned The Third Class at Miss Kaye's; it was subtitled A School Story.
Freeman, Gillian. The Schoolgirl Ethic: The Life and Work of Angela Brazil. Allen Lane.
88
Textual Production
Angela Brazil
AB
published both A Patriotic Schoolgirl and For the School Colours (manuscript received by Blackie
on 25 February), in both of which the girls energetically support the war effort (and enthuse over the heroism of...
Textual Production
Eva Figes
In June and October 1965, EF
edited for Blackie
two anthologies, Classic Choice and Modern Choice. This initiated a long-lasting career as an anthologist.
Textual Production
Alice Meynell
AM
wrote introductions or prefaces to over twenty books. For Blackie
's Red Letter Library series alone she introduced Elizabeth Barrett Browning
's letters and poems (1896 and 1903), and works by Robert Browning
(1903),...
Textual Production
Evelyn Sharp
The Child's Christmas, by ES
with pictures by Charles Robinson
, was published by Blackie
, containing stories for children.
