In addition, she says, to coming from the kind of dysfunctional background she could relate to, he was well-read, artistic, bohemian,
Weldon, Fay. Auto da Fay. Flamingo.
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a house-owner, and a now-single parent. They walked together under a full moon...
Textual Production
Berta Ruck
BR
published He Learnt about Women (published in New York as He Learned about Women) with Mills and Boon
, a novel whose hero escapes the snares of various predatory women and goes on...
Education
J. K. Rowling
Formative early reading included Richard Scarry
and Kenneth Grahame
's The Wind in the Willows. Joanne Rowling did not care for Enid Blyton
as a young child but acquired a taste for her later...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Joan Riley
Here for the first time JR
turns from unrelieved bleakness to comedy. Her central characters here are two Caribbean sisters living in Croydon. The clever, overweight Verona has a good but boring job as...
Publishing
Jean Plaidy
From this year until 1962, JP
published some thirty romance novels as Eleanor Alice Burford; she generally brought out at least one title a year, and sometimes two. Jenkins
published the novels until 1956...
Intertextuality and Influence
Ann Oakley
This is the first of AO
's novels without a central female protagonist; and the result is a certain lack of focus. The story is set at a resort on the coast of Turkey...
Textual Production
Flora Klickmann
A couple of years after FK
's death, her nephew the Rev. Brian Kingslake
selected and edited an anthology of her work entitled The Cottage and the Flower Patch, published in 1960 by Mills and Boon
.
Publishing
Molly Keane
She wrote it secretly under the bedclothes, to combat boredom when, as a schoolgirl, she was sent home and kept in bed with something that was incorrectly suspected to be tuberculosis. Published by Mills and Boon
Literary responses
Elizabeth Jolley
Readers were often highly critical of Palomino.
Gilbert, Pam. Coming Out From Under: Contemporary Australian Women Writers. Pandora.
44
The plot has been called terrible and often ridiculous rather than absurd.
Daniel, Helen. Liars: Australian New Novelists. Penguin.
276
Such uneasiness may be attributed in part to the unflinching seriousness with which...
Literary responses
E. M. Hull
EMH
's first novel, her desert romance The Sheik, became something of a cultural phenomenon.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
It established the formula for the desert romance, which grew in popularity between the two World Wars in a...
Dedications
Constance Holme
CH
published with Mills and Boon
(who became her regular publisher) her first novel to reach book form, Crump Folk Going Home, dedicated to her father
and mother
.
Holme, Constance. Crump Folk Going Home. Cedric Chivers.
prelims
Publishing
Constance Holme
CH
published her second novel, The Lonely Plough, which became her best-known.
GH
later called her second novel, The Great Roxhythe. (published with Hutchinson
in 1922 and set late in the reign of Charles II
), the worst book I ever wrote—the sort of book that makes...
Textual Production
Beatrice Harraden
BH
's final novel, Search Will Find It Out, appeared from another new publisher, Mills and Boon
. It is titled from a line by Robert Herrick
, duly quoted on its title-page.
Harraden, Beatrice. Search Will Find It Out. Mills and Boon.
prelims, title-page
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.
Education
Alison Fell
AF
later remembered her childhood, at home, as full of beatings and beltings. This made her into a fanatic for justice and equality, though she felt it might equally easily have produced a working-class fascist...
Timeline
28 November 1908: Gerald Mills and Charles Boon registered...
Writing climate item
28 November 1908
Gerald Mills
and Charles Boon
registered their new publishing company, Mills and Boon
(then a general publisher of fiction and non-fiction), at an address in Whitcombe Street, London.
1930: The publisher Mills and Boon began specialising...
Writing climate item
1930
The publisher Mills and Boon
began specialising in romantic titles designed to sell to commercial libraries.
1971: The British firm of Mills and Boon, publishers...
Women writers item
1971
The British firm of Mills and Boon
, publishers of popular romance, were taken over by the North American Harlequin Books
.
9 December 2003: The UK's first toll motorway, the M6 Toll...
Building item
9 December 2003
The UK's first toll motorway, the M6 Toll Road, officially opened. The 27-mile stretch of road (formerly known as the Birmingham Northern Relief Road) was designed to give motorists the chance to avoid congestion...
20 April 2011: Jean MacLeod, Scottish author of a hundred...
Women writers item
20 April 2011
Jean MacLeod
, Scottish author of a hundred and thirty romantic novels published by Mills and Boon
, died at the age of one hundred and three.
“Obituaries. Jean MacLeod”. Daily Telegraph, p. 29.
29
December 2016: The one-hundredth romance novel by Mills...
Women writers item
December 2016
The one-hundredth romance novel by Mills and Boon
author Sharon Kendrick
, A Royal Vow of Convenience, was released not only in audio as well as book form but in a 3D sound recording.