Lycett, Andrew. “Collins the campaigner”. The Author, Vol.
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, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 2015, pp. 20-1. 21
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Marina Warner | During the war her father (then a Lieutenant-Colonel) met the owners of the book chain W. H. Smith
, and through them established an English-language bookshop for the international community in Cairo. The shop... |
Publishing | Wilkie Collins | But he lost the next trick when W. H. Smith
supplied its cheap Railway Library series not from the Bentley edition but from 400 bound copies of extracts from Cassell's. Lycett, Andrew. “Collins the campaigner”. The Author, Vol. 126 , No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 2015, pp. 20-1. 21 |
Publishing | Mary Augusta Ward | This quick release of an affordable edition left the big circulating library Mudie's
(who on 27 June had announced with W. H. Smith
a reduction in their standard payment for triple-deckers) with hundreds of expensive... |
Publishing | Annie S. Swan | Her papers are held at the University of Aberdeen
, Edinburgh University
, and Columbia University
, New York, which holds both catalogued and uncatalogued correspondence by her in its collection of the papers... |
Reception | Dinah Mulock Craik | |
Reception | Oscar Wilde | The bookseller W. H. Smith
, on its publication in 1891, declined to sell the novel on the grounds that it was filthy. Ellmann, Richard. Oscar Wilde. Knopf, 1988. 323 |
Reception | Marina Warner | At the age of fourteen, MW
won the W. H. Smith
Children's Poetry Prize. Williams, Elaine. “Marina Warner”. Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Forty Women Whose Ideas Shape the Modern World, edited by Sian Griffiths, Manchester University Press, 1996, pp. 259-67. 260 |
Reception | Dora Marsden | The Freewoman was banned from W. H. Smith
shops because the nature of certain articles which have been appearing lately are such as to render the paper unsuitable to be exposed on the bookstalls for... |
Reception | Dora Marsden | Sales of the bimonthly New Freewoman remained low (about 400 copies per issue), a consequence of its appeal to a limited audience and the continued ban by W. H. Smith
. It was kept alive... |