Duckworth

VW 's first novel, The Voyage Out, dedicated To L. W., was published by Duckworth and Company .

Gerald Duckworth (1870-1937) established the firm that became Duckworth & Co. , publishers. He published VW 's first two novels, The Voyage Out, 1915, and Night and Day, 1919.

The married couple Colin Haycraft and Alice Thomas Ellis (herself a writer) both worked at Gerald Duckworth publishers, and met BB while she was working there as a clerk. They taught her to write properly...

Reviewers, one of whom was American poet Marianne Moore , considered the book very handsome. Its publisher, Jackson , took an increased interest in Richardson as a novelist even before this text came out, and...

During the summer of 1919, DR made various appeals to Curtis Brown and Alfred Knopf for money to live on, as she earned virtually nothing from the American editions of her previous books. She was...

BB began working as a part-time clerk for the publishing firm Gerald Duckworth , where Colin Haycraft and his wife Anna (the writer Alice Thomas Ellis ) provided invaluable advice for her writing career.

The four shillings and sixpence an hour she earned in this job went to supplement her payment from Duckworth of a little over seven pounds a week.

With her publishers, Duckworth , in financial difficulties in 1989, exacerbated by embarking on misconceived and expensive publicity schemes, BB often acted as go-between for Colin Haycraft and his potential, competing backers Roger Shashoua and...

Her husband Tom Hopkinson used persuasion and compulsion to get her to complete her manuscript, giving her deadlines for reading it to him, chapter by chapter. It was then rejected by a whole...

This was her last book to be published by Duckworth , so it must have been after this that she felt Duckworth were trying to drop her. Proudly, she dropped them first, and rejected overtures...

This had been rejected by such publishers as Duckworth and Fisher Unwin before it was accepted, with revisions, by Michael Sadleir at Constable . Jameson had sent her typescript to Constable under her husband 's...

She wrote this book nearly twenty years after the experiences on which she based it, and not long after her husband died. With it she switched publishers for her novels, from Duckworth to Collins ...

She had completed this novel nearly two years before publication. It appeared while she was in the uncomfortable condition of owing nearly a hundred and sixty pounds to her agent, because of the size of...

FMF first published under the name Ford H. Madox Hueffer , a name combining his birthname (Ford Hermann Hueffer ) with the name of his maternal grandfather (Ford Madox Brown ). After the...

CM 's Collected Poems were posthumously published by Duckworth , with a memoir by Alida Monro .