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...
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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...
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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.
236
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape.
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Evelyn Waugh
Its working title was Untoward Incidents. It was rejected as obscene by Duckworth
before Waugh turned to his father's firm.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
It is dedicated in Homage and Affection to EW
's Oxford
friend and mentor Harold Acton
.
Waugh, Evelyn. Decline and Fall. Chapman.
prelims
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Penelope Fitzgerald
She composed this work as an amusement and distraction for her husband, during the illness of which he died two years later.
Harvey-Wood, Harriet. “Penelope Fitzgerald”. The Guardian, p. 22.
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She made some cuts at the instigation of her then publisher, Duckworth
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Antonia White
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.
Vaux, Anna. “Biscuits. Oh good!”. London Review of Books, pp. 32-4.
32
Hopkinson, Amanda. “Aunt Tony”. London Review of Books, pp. 4-5.
4
It was then rejected by a whole...
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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...
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Storm Jameson
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...
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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
...
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Beryl Bainbridge
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...