Duckworth

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 .

She began this novel knowing nothing about writing as a profession. She wrote the entire manuscript in a set of children's copy-books.She finished it quickly, and her husband showed it to Samuel Jeyes

While marginally less productive, BB continued during the 1980s to publish novels in a similar vein to her earlier ones. All through this decade she continued to find it difficult to manage her literary income...

EG began this novel, whose working title was The Chronicle of Ambrosine, while she was in Egypt. She finished it at Carlsbad on 20 August 1902, after a long interruption caused by travel...

This was the first book she had published since the death of Colin Haycraft and after a determined attempt had been made to lure her away from Duckworth to Viking. The final offer made...

Duckworth issued a reprint on 31 October 1974, with an introduction by photographer Cecil Beaton (which had also appeared in the Times just before the reprint was published). Beaton had first met with EG 's...

BB was by now a highly marketable commodity as novelists go. Her recent three-book publishing agreement brought her £78,000 up front—almost certainly less than she could have got by bargaining, and even called by...

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...

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...

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...

Its working title was Untoward Incidents. It was rejected as obscene by Duckworth before Waugh turned to his father's firm. It is dedicated in Homage and Affection to EW 's Oxford friend and mentor Harold Acton .

Duckworth published EG 's epistolary novelLetters to Caroline in April 1914, after it had been serialised in Nash's Magazine.

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...