Hutchinson

NJ 's novel Strange Beginning was published by Robert Hale after, to her extreme displeasure, her faithful agent Raymond Savage informed her that Hutchinson no longer wanted her on their list.

The manuscript of this book had been firmly dismissed, with negative comment on the imagery, diction, and spelling, in 1964 by BB 's then agent.New Authors, the brainchild of Graham Nicoll ...

The title is a phrase used to describe the evangelist St Luke . This seems to have been the last novel that NJ published through Thornton Butterworth before switching to Hutchinson .

It is often referred to as her first novel (presumably in part because The Little Mother Who Sits at Home was presented as non-fiction). She remembered finishing it with her...

This novel was published by Hutchinson , to whom NJ moved from Butterworth as a result of the lucrative, long-standing contract negotiated with Hutchinson by her agent, Raymond Savage . As the series took...

With this novel she temporarily changed publishers, from W. Heinemann to another London firm, Hutchinson and Co.

Savage was forced to tell her, from Hutchinson , that her sales had slumped and that her mode of writing was considered out of date. She blamed the messenger for the news, and never forgave...

A US edition, however (published before 6 October 1900 in Chicago by Herbert S. Stone & Co. ), gave her name as Emma Brooke. The London edition was again published by Hutchinson .

Her next romance, Will-o-the-Wisp, for which she had a contract with Hutchinson , she set aside from despair of being able to get it to the publisher. It finally appeared in the year of her death.

She dedicated it to Frederick C. Skey , former president of the Royal College of Surgeons . Already in 1871, ostensibly the year of its book publication, two other London publishers, Gall and Inglis

AC signed a contract with Hutchinson on 4 February 1904. She received an advance of £75 that was desperately needed.

BC wrote seven more novels during the next decade. Her earlier novels, including her first, were published mainly by Duckworth , then Hutchinson . When sales declined, she switched to publishing with Mandarin and Severn .

EF 's next poetry volume, City Music, full of personal poems about the passage of time, was the last she published with Hutchinson before the axing of their poetry list.

For The Three BrontësMS changed her publisher to Hutchinson , who had offered her a generous advance on her next three novels. She probably felt that Constable had not made enough effort on the...

In her preface to the new edition published by A. C. Armstrong of New York in 1891, MCC wrote that these tales were written in all the glow of having finished the sixteen years' labor...