Samuel French

Connections

Connections	Author name Sort ascending	Excerpt
Publishing	Dorothy Whipple	This was re-issued by, among other publishers, the Peoples Book Club in Chicago (undated but probably in the original year of publication) and by Samuel French in March 1991. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. “Bowker’s Global Books in Print”. globalbooksinprint.com.
Textual Production	Fay Weldon	FW 's Flood Warning: A Play (for two men and three women) was published by Samuel French . Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. 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.
Textual Production	Fay Weldon	This play was published in October 1980 by Samuel French . British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons. 1982 Weldon, Fay. Action Replay. Samuel French. title page
Publishing	Josephine Tey	The play was published that year by Victor Gollancz in London and by Little, Brown in Boston. Tey, Josephine. Richard of Bordeaux. Little, Brown. prelims Samuel French , Longmans , Penguin , and Pan all published editions of it between 1935 and 1966. Harben, Niloufer. Twentieth-Century English History Plays: from Shaw to Bond. Macmillan. 93
Publishing	Lesley Storm	The play opened on Broadway on 27 September 1950, at the 48th Street Theatre . John Wildberg produced it, Charles Hickman did the staging, and Larry Eggleton designed the sets. Storm, Lesley. Black Chiffon. Samuel French. 4 The English Theatre Guild
Textual Production	Lesley Storm	Samuel French published the play the following year.
Friends, Associates	Githa Sowerby	Through her husband she acquired a circle of friends including E. V. Lucas , Kenneth Bird (professionally the cartoonist Fougasse ), Granville-Barker , and Cyril Hogg (owner of the music publishing firm Samuel French ). Riley, Patricia. Looking for Githa. New Writing North. 102-3
Publishing	Githa Sowerby	It ran for sixty-three performances, and was published by Samuel French in 1913. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. In March 1913 it ran at the Empire Theatre in New York under the title Jinny. Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press. 959 GS wrote to her...
Textual Production	Dodie Smith	DS once again had trouble placing her next plays, That Which Hath Been, set in a monastery, and Amateur Means Lover, set in a Camden Town rooming house. The latter was eventually performed...
Publishing	Constance Smedley	CS had moved smoothly from writing one-act plays for the Cotswold Players to writing them for the first, Chelsea, incarnation of the Greenleaf Players. She wrote a number of plays for performance by the...
Textual Production	Charlotte Riddell	The play was printed by Samuel French as George Geith; or, Romance of a City Life, A Drama in four acts and a tableau, 1880. Reeve and his leading lady, Ada Lester , toured...
Publishing	Harold Pinter	Faber printed the two plays together this year; Samuel French issued an edition of Celebration alone in 2002. 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.
Textual Production	George Paston	Samuel French published GP 's Stars: A Comedy, a one-act play in which a husband-and-wife acting duo battle over their reviews. Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press. 875
Textual Production	George Paston	Annie Horniman gave this play two successful revivals in Manchester: at the Midland Hotel Theatre in October 1907, and at the Gaiety Theatre in 1908, where its proceeds guaranteed the season's financial success. Kaplan, Joel H., and Sheila Stowell. Theatre and Fashion: Oscar Wilde to the Suffragettes. Cambridge University Press. 164
Textual Production	George Paston	The production was a success, running for 167 performances. The play was published the same year by Samuel French . Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press. 875 Wearing, J. P. The London Stage 1910-1919. Scarecrow Press. 10.86

Timeline

1957

Dulcie Gray launched her publishing career: Samuel French issued her playLove Affair (which had been staged the previous year) and the first of her murder mysteries, Murder on the Stairs, also appeared.

1958

Elaine Morgan 's one-act playThe Waiting-Room was published by Samuel French .

Texts

Bagnold, Enid. The Chinese Prime Minister. Samuel French, 1964.

Dane, Clemence. A Bill of Divorcement. Samuel French, 1921.

Dane, Clemence, and Richard Addinsell. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. Samuel French, 1948.

Dane, Clemence. Eighty in the Shade. Samuel French, 1959.

Dane, Clemence. Granite. Samuel French, 1926.

Farjeon, Eleanor et al. The Silver Curlew. Samuel French, 1953.

Frye, Kate Parry, and John Robert Collins. Cease Fire!. Samuel French, 1921.

Gems, Pam. Camille. Samuel French, 1987.

Gems, Pam. Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi. Samuel French, 1977.

Hamilton, Cicely. Diana of Dobson’s. Samuel French, 1925.

Hamilton, Cicely. Jack and Jill and a Friend. Samuel French, 1911.

Hamilton, Cicely. Just to Get Married. Samuel French, 1914.

Hamilton, Cicely. The Child in Flanders. Samuel French, 1922.

Jay, Harriett, and Robert Williams Buchanan. The Strange Adventures of Miss Brown. Samuel French, 1909.

Johnston, Jennifer. The Nightingale and not the Lark. Samuel French, 1980.

Keane, Molly, and John Perry. Dazzling Prospect. Samuel French, 1961.

Keane, Molly, and John Perry. Spring Meeting. Samuel French, 1938.

Keane, Molly, and John Perry. Treasure Hunt. Samuel French, 1952.

Paston, George. Double or Quits. Samuel French, 1919.

Paston, George. Feed the Brute. Samuel French, 1909.

Paston, George. Stars. Samuel French, 1925.

Paston, George. Stuffing. Samuel French, 1912.

Pinter, Harold. The Collection. Samuel French, 1963.

Rubens, Bernice. Hijack. Samuel French, 1993.

Sowerby, Githa. Before Breakfast. Samuel French, 1913.