“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Textual Production
Richmal Crompton
RC
published with HutchinsonLinden Rise, another novel about a family of children growing up to adulthood: this time she presents the story through the eyes of a servant.
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Textual Production
Annie Louisa Walker
ALW
's final novel, The Trial of Mary Broom: A Staffordshire Story, appeared in Hutchinson
's Homespun Series twelve years after her penultimate novel, Two Rival Lovers.
Cook, Ramsay, editor. Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. http://www.biographi.ca/index2.html.
RC
's novel Four in Exile appeared through Hutchinson
both at London and New York: it reworks the situation and themes of an earlier novel, The Holiday, 1933.
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BB
published through Hutchinson
her second novel, Another Part of the Wood, in which two urban couples experience a disastrous holiday at a remote cottage in Wales.
King, Brendan. Beryl Bainbridge. Bloomsbury .
311
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
Lucille Iremonger
LI
's second book was a novel, Creole (based on the experience of her own youth), published by Hutchinson
as number 133 in their First Novel Library.
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Textual Features
Kathleen Caffyn
This narrative opens on the Australian cattle ranch of the Marrables family. Daughter Elizabeth Marrables rejects one marriage proposal, but when her father dies and the family's annual income falls to five hundred pounds...
Reception
Elizabeth Robins
ER
's publisher, Hutchinson
, blamed this book's poor sales (only 300 copies) on the author's insistence on maintaining her anonymity.
John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge.
214
Reviewers, however, mostly revealed her identify, and those who quarrelled with this book...
Reception
Georgette Heyer
GH
later called her second novel, The Great Roxhythe. (published with Hutchinson
in 1922 and set late in the reign of Charles II
), the worst book I ever wrote—the sort of book that makes...
Publishing
Beryl Bainbridge
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.
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
.
Publishing
Hélène Barcynska
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).
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
55957 (11 March 1964): 15
She remembered finishing it with her...
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).
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Publishing
Naomi Jacob
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...
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Texts
Carey, Rosa Nouchette. Mollie’s Prince. Hutchinson, 1898.
Cartland, Barbara. I Search for Rainbows. Hutchinson, 1967.
Cartland, Barbara. Josephine, Empress of France. Hutchinson, 1961.
Cartland, Barbara. The Isthmus Years. Hutchinson, 1943.
Cartland, Barbara. The Years of Opportunity, 1939-1945. Hutchinson, 1948.
Cartland, Barbara. We Danced All Night. Hutchinson, 1970.
Clerke, Ellen Mary. Flowers of Fire. Hutchinson, 1902.
Corelli, Marie. Boy. Hutchinson, 1900.
Corelli, Marie, and G. H. Edwards. Jane. Hutchinson, 1897.
Corelli, Marie. Open Confession. Hutchinson, 1924.
Corelli, Marie. Poems. Hutchinson, 1925.
Corelli, Marie et al. The Modern Marriage Market. Hutchinson, 1898.
Croker, B. M. In Old Madras. Hutchinson, 1913.
Crommelin, May. Mr. and Mrs. Herries. Hutchinson, 1892.
Crommelin, May, and A. Williams. The Isle of the Dead. Hutchinson, 1911.
Crompton, Richmal. Linden Rise. Hutchinson, 1952.
Delafield, E. M. Messalina of the Suburbs. Hutchinson, 1923.
Delafield, E. M. The Optimist. Hutchinson, 1922.
Delafield, E. M. The Way Things Are. Hutchinson, 1927.
Dell, Ethel M. Honeyball Farm. Hutchinson, 1937.
Dell, Ethel M. Storm Drift. Hutchinson, 1930.
Dell, Ethel M. The Altar of Honour. Hutchinson, 1929.
Dell, Ethel M. The Lamp in the Desert. Hutchinson, 1919.
Dell, Ethel M. The Silver Wedding. Hutchinson, 1931.
Dell, Ethel M. The Unknown Quantity. Hutchinson, 1924.