Hussey, Mark. Virginia Woolf A to Z. Facts on File.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Virginia Woolf
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.
Intertextuality and Influence
Beryl Bainbridge
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...
Literary responses
Dorothy Richardson
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...
Material Conditions of Writing
Dorothy Richardson
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...
Occupation
Beryl Bainbridge
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.
Anna...
Occupation
Beryl Bainbridge
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.
Taylor, Debbie. “Interview with Beryl Bainbridge”. Mslexia, Vol.
19
, pp. 14-16.
14
Occupation
Beryl Bainbridge
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...
Publishing
Elinor Glyn
EG
wrote three more travel novels over the course of her career: His Hour (October 1910, a romantic novel in which she recounts her experiences in Russia and at the Russian court), Letters from Spain...
Publishing
Dorothy Richardson
When she finished the novel early in 1913, she showed it to Jack Beresford and a publisher. Neither of them was enthusiastic, so the manuscript was stored for some time. In January 1915, Beresford suggested...
Publishing
Eva Mary Bell
She dedicated it to G. H. B.
(her husband) and R. C. H.
, who must be either her father or her brother who bore the same name. The original publisher, Duckworth
, put out...
Publishing
Dorothy Richardson
Their financial situation became more dire during this year. Backwater brought in royalities amounting to less than Duckworth's advance, and Richardson also owed money to Curtis Brown
, the agent who negotiated her contracts with...
Publishing
Catherine Carswell
The novel had been submitted to Duckworth
in the spring of 1918, but was rejected as too long (production costs had more than doubled as a result of the war). Chatto and Windus
offered a...
Publishing
Elinor Glyn
Duckworth
published EG
's epistolary novel Letters to Caroline in April 1914, after it had been serialised in Nash's Magazine.
BC
wrote seven more novels during the next decade.
Heald, Tim. A Life of Love: The Life of Barbara Cartland. Sinclair-Stevenson.
166
Her earlier novels, including her first, were published mainly by Duckworth
, then Hutchinson
. When sales declined, she switched to publishing with Mandarin and Severn
.
Heald, Tim. A Life of Love: The Life of Barbara Cartland. Sinclair-Stevenson.
167-8
Timeline
1912: Janet Dodge published her novel Tony Unregenerate...