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.
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Publishing
Elinor Glyn
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...
Publishing
Dorothy Richardson
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...
Publishing
Elinor Glyn
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...
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
Elizabeth Goudge
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...
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.
Egerton, George. A Leaf from the Yellow Book. Editor White, Terence de Vere, Richards Press.
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.
Child, Harold H. “New Novels”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 748, p. 236.
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Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape.
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Texts
Cartland, Barbara. Jig-Saw. Duckworth, 1925.
Coles, Gladys Mary. The Flower of Light: A Biography of Mary Webb. Duckworth, 1978.
Farjeon, Eleanor, and MacDonald Gill. Nursery Rhymes of London Town. Duckworth, 1916.
Fitzgerald, Penelope. The Bookshop. Duckworth, 1978, p. 118 pp.
Fitzgerald, Penelope. The Golden Child. Duckworth, 1977, p. 159 pp.
Ford, Ford Madox. A Man Could Stand Up. Duckworth, 1926.
Ford, Ford Madox. Last Post. Duckworth, 1928.
Ford, Ford Madox. No More Parades. Duckworth, 1925.
Ford, Ford Madox. Some Do Not—. Duckworth, 1924.
Galsworthy, John. Escape. Duckworth, 1926.
Galsworthy, John. Justice. Duckworth, 1910.
Galsworthy, John. Loyalties. Duckworth, 1922.
Galsworthy, John. Strife. Duckworth, 1910.
Galsworthy, John. The Silver Box. Duckworth, 1910.
Galsworthy, John. The Skin Game. Duckworth, 1920.
Glyn, Elinor. "It" and Other Stories. Duckworth, 1927.
Glyn, Elinor. Beyond the Rocks. Duckworth, 1906.
Glyn, Elinor. Elizabeth Visits America. Duckworth, 1909.
Glyn, Elinor. The Damsel and the Sage. Duckworth, 1903.
Glyn, Elinor. The Reason Why. Duckworth, 1911.
Glyn, Elinor. The Visits of Elizabeth. Duckworth, 1900.
Glyn, Elinor. Three Weeks. Duckworth, 1907.
Glyn, Elinor, and Cecil Beaton. Three Weeks. Duckworth, 1974.
Goudge, Elizabeth. A City of Bells. Duckworth, 1936.