EF
published with Hutchinson
in 1973 (the same year as her third novel, The Glass Alembic) a poetry volume entitled The Celebrants, from which Fleur Adcock
selected the poem Lais for The Faber...
Dedications
Maureen Duffy
MD
published with HutchinsonLyrics for the Dog Hour, a book of poems, headed with an address in Latin to Death and a dedication in Italian to Anadyomene.
Anadyomene, meaning I rise from the...
Material Conditions of Writing
Susan Hill
SH
issued her second novel, Do Me a Favour, another very early work, written as an undergraduate and published, like her first, with Hutchinson
.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
14
Publishing
Mary Cowden Clarke
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...
Publishing
Sarah Grand
SG
had begun writing the novel by 1898, as a serial very quickly, before Ideala.
qtd. in
Kersley, Gillian. Darling Madame: Sarah Grand and Devoted Friend. Virago Press, 1983.
103
The New York edition had illustrations by Arthur I. Keller
.The book was not published in Britain until...
Publishing
Rebecca West
The Modern "Rake's Progress", with words by RW
and paintings by David Low
, was published by Hutchinson
.
Hutchinson, G. Evelyn. A Preliminary List of the Writings of Rebecca West, 1912-1951. Yale University Library, 1957.
10
West, Rebecca, and David Low. The Modern "Rake’s Progress". Hutchinson, 1934, http://UofA.
Publishing
Michelene Wandor
In 1990 MW
published a larger collection with Hutchinson
in England and Random Century
in the USA under the same title as the 1984 volume: Gardens of Eden: Selected Poems. A second collection, with...
Publishing
Beryl Bainbridge
BB
's first venture into print, the novel A Weekend with Claud, appeared under the auspices of Hutchinson
's New Authors imprint, which functioned like a co-operative.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Publishing
Violet Trefusis
VT
and Philippe Jullian
collaborated on Memoirs of an Armchair, the translation of Jullian' Mémoires d'une bergère, a fantasy about a Tilliard
chair that observes a variety of historical and fictional events over...
Publishing
Naomi Jacob
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.
Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin), 2001.
181-2
Publishing
Katherine Cecil Thurston
KCT
's novel The Gambler was published in book form by John Hutchinson
, having been first serialized in Lady's Realm from May 1905.
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index. http://c19index.chadwyck.com/home.do.
Anonymous,. “News Notes”. The Bookman, Vol.
29
, No. 173, Feb. 1906, pp. 191-4.
29.173 (February 1906): 192
Athenæum. J. Lection.
4086 (17 February 1906): 199
Publishing
Naomi Jacob
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
.
The first suggestion that she should write a novel came from Graham Nicol
, editor of Hutchinson
's New Authors series.
This remarkable series published first books only, provided the same contract to all its...
Publishing
Naomi Jacob
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
.
Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin), 2001.
147
As the series took...
Timeline
10 October 1887: George Thompson Hutchinson founded Hutchinson...
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.
29 December 1940: St Paul's Cathedral in London survived an...
National or international item
29 December 1940
St Paul's Cathedral in London survived an air raid that destroyed almost all the buildings around it; a photograph of the dome standing amidst flames and billowing smoke became an emblem of the courage of...
1954: Five books were the subject of obscenity...
Writing climate item
1954
Five books were the subject of obscenity prosecutions in England: Walter Baxter
's The Image and the Search, Vivian Connell
's September in Quinze, Charles McGraw
's The Man in Control,...
Texts
Adburgham, Alison. A Punch History of Manners and Modes 1841-1940. Hutchinson, 1961.
Asquith, Lady Cynthia. Diaries 1915-1918. Hutchinson, 1968.
Asquith, Lady Cynthia. Married to Tolstoy. Hutchinson, 1960.
Asquith, Lady Cynthia, editor. The Ghost Book. Hutchinson, 1926.
Bainbridge, Beryl. A Weekend With Claude. Hutchinson, 1967.
Bainbridge, Beryl. Another Part of the Wood. Hutchinson, 1968.
Beer, Patricia. Moon’s Ottery. Hutchinson, 1978.
Beer, Patricia. Selected Poems. Hutchinson, 1979.
Beer, Patricia. The Lie of the Land. Hutchinson, 1983.
Beer, Patricia. The Star Cross Ferry. Hutchinson, 1999.
Beerbohm, Max, editor. Herbert Beerbohm Tree: Some Memories of Him and of His Art. Hutchinson, 1920.
Benjamin, Lewis Saul. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Her life and Letters (1689-1762). Hutchinson, 1925.
Benjamin, Lewis Saul. Life of William Makepeace Thackeray. Hutchinson, 1890.
Bowen, Marjorie. The Man with the Scales. Hutchinson, 1954.
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth. Beyond These Voices. Hutchinson, 1910.
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth. Mary. Hutchinson, 1916.
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth. The Rose of Life. Hutchinson, 1905.
Brain, Robert. The Decorated Body. Hutchinson, 1979.
Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson, 1987.
Caffyn, Kathleen. A Comedy in Spasms. Hutchinson, 1895.
Caffyn, Kathleen. A Quaker Grandmother. Hutchinson, 1896.
Caffyn, Kathleen. A Yellow Aster. Hutchinson, 1894, 3 vols.
Caffyn, Kathleen. Children of Circumstance. Hutchinson, 1894, 3 vols.
