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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
, Oct. 2003, pp. 14-16.
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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
Penelope Fitzgerald
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...
Publishing
Dorothy Richardson
She found it difficult to write this novel because of the publishing difficulties over Oberland and the death of H. G. Wells
's wife Amy Catherine, Jane
(a longtime friend and the model for one...
Publishing
Penelope Fitzgerald
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...