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
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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Barbara Cartland
BC
wrote seven more novels during the next decade.
Heald, Tim. A Life of Love: The Life of Barbara Cartland. Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994.
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, 1994.
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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...
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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...
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...
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Mary Agnes Hamilton
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, 18 May 1916, p. 236.
236
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Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.
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George Egerton
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, 1958.
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.