Duckworth

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...

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.

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...

Shortly after the publication of The Career of Katherine Bush, Duckworth signed a contract with Jonathan Cape to publish cheap editions of EG 's books. This contract greatly expanded her reading public, as well...

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...

EG 's war novel, Elizabeth's Daughter (1918), was published in serial form both in English periodicals by Frank Newnes , and in American ones by the Hearst press. Hearst used the title Elizabeth's Daughter Visits...

BC wrote seven more novels during the next decade. Her earlier novels, including her first, were published mainly by Duckworth , then Hutchinson . When sales declined, she switched to publishing with Mandarin and Severn .

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...

She compiled a list of publishers and sent the manuscript out on its rounds. She later wrote that Duckworth , who accepted it, was the publishing firm to which she owed the greatest debt, because...

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...

Mary Agnes Hamilton changed her publisher to Duckworth (from Heinemann ) for her next novel, Dead Yesterday, which expresses her horrified opposition to the First World War.

She had begun the working on this translation many years earlier, in 1890-91, while living in London just after she had first met and fallen in love with Hamsun.Edwin Björkman wrote the introduction...

H. G. Wells offered to find her another publisher than Duckworth , as he felt she could do better in terms of remuneration and publicity with someone else. Finally, after the manuscript was refused by...

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...