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
Beryl Bainbridge
BB
was by now a highly marketable commodity as novelists go. Her recent three-book publishing agreement brought her £78,000 up front—almost certainly less than she could have got by bargaining, and even called by...
Publishing
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, 27 May 1999, pp. 32-4.
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Hopkinson, Amanda. “Aunt Tony”. London Review of Books, 10 June 1999, pp. 4-5.
4
It was then rejected by a whole...
Publishing
Elinor Glyn
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...
Publishing
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, 1928.
prelims
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
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...
Residence
Clemence Dane
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.
Jones, Jonathan. “The body in the river”. The Guardian, Vol.
saturday review
, 14 Aug. 1999, p. 5.
5
Later, she lived above a greengrocer's shop...
Textual Production
Dorothy Richardson
DR
issued Dawn's Left Hand, volume ten of Pilgrimage, and her last book published by Duckworth
.
Fromm, Gloria G. Dorothy Richardson: A Biography. University of Illinois Press, 1977.
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press, 1996.
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Textual Production
Naomi Jacob
Look at the Clock: A Yorkshire Novel, begun in Italy by NJ
's mother, was published by Duckworth
under the name of Nina Abbott, with a foreword by Jacob.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin), 2001.
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Textual Production
D. H. Lawrence
Duckworth
published DHL
's The Prussian Officer, and Other Stories.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
