Duckworth

She composed this work as an amusement and distraction for her husband, during the illness of which he died two years later. She made some cuts at the instigation of her then publisher, Duckworth

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 .

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

During the 1930s CD lived in a flat in Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, in a building which for years housed the offices of Duckworth the publishers. Later, she lived above a greengrocer's shop...

EG 's romance novel The Career of Katherine Bush appeared from Duckworth in London the year after Appleton had published it in the USA.

The same year as her final historical novel—about the Young Pretender—CO chose the same person as subject for her earliest historical biography, Prince Charles Edward, written for Duckworth 's Great Lives series.

DR 's novel Interim, the fifth volume of Pilgrimage, was published in its entirety (following serialization) with Duckworth .

DR issued Dawn's Left Hand, volume ten of Pilgrimage, and her last book published by Duckworth .

Under the pseudonym of John Travers, EMB published through Duckworth her first novel, Sahib-log, whose title means the tribe or species of the white rulers of India.

The deal was struck after EG asked Blumenfeld if he could help her earn £1,000, which she desperately needed to cover her husband's latest debts. She finished the novel in eighteen days, having instructed her...