J. M. Dent

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Textual Production Mabel Birchenough
MB published her final novel, Private Bobs and the New Recruit, through J. M. Dent .
Bassett, Troy J. At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction 1837-1901.
Publishing Ménie Muriel Dowie
It was published simultaneously in New York by J. P. Linnicott and in London by Methuen and Co. A second London edition appeared just a few months later in May, and the novel was reprinted...
Textual Production Daphne Du Maurier
DDM 's Castle Dor, her completion of an unfinished novel by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch , was published by J. M. Dent .
Forster, Margaret. Daphne du Maurier. Chatto and Windus.
316, 439n3
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
3131(2 March 1962):141
Textual Production Kate Greenaway
From this year until 1894 Routledge published these annual volumes, printed by Edmund Evans . A number for 1897 was published by J. M. Dent & Co.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Literary responses Kate Greenaway
The first Almanack (for 1883, published in 1882) sold 90,000 copies in England, America, France and Germany.
Lundin, Anne. Victorian Horizons: The Reception of the Picture Books of Walter Crane, Randolph Caldecott, and Kate Greenaway. Scarecrow Press, Inc.
181
It was among Routledge's most important and bestselling titles.
Engen, Rodney. Kate Greenaway: A Biography. Macdonald Futura Publishers Limited.
158
The later almanacs proved to be equally...
Textual Production Hannah Lynch
HL 's guidebook or travel book Toledo. The Story of an Old Spanish Capital appeared in J. M. Dent 's series Mediaeval Towns, with illustrations by Helen M. James .
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
35820 (4 May 1899): 6
Textual Production Shena Mackay
SM edited and published with Dent an anthology entitled, and on the theme of, Friendship, with her own introduction.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
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.
Textual Production Ella K. Maillart
It was written in response to the request of an American publisher that she would summarize her earlier books. It was published in London by Dent . The work reads rather like condensed autobiography with...
Publishing E. Nesbit
Biographer Julia Briggs believes that the original story was stimulated by EN 's writing about her own schooldays for the Girls' Own Paper.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
The composite book of tales appeared in instalments in The Windsor...
Textual Production Carola Oman
CO contributed Robin Hood, The Prince of Outlaws, a biography based on medieval sources, to J. M. Dent 's Children's Illustrated Classics series.
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.
Publishing Dorothy Richardson
In September 1934, she met S. S. Koteliansky , known as Kot to such friends and associates as Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry , D. H. Lawrence , and Virginia and Leonard Woolf ...
Publishing Dorothy Richardson
Richard Church of Dent had written to DR in March 1936 to suggest publishing a collected edition of Pilgrimage, including her proposed twelfth volume, as the completed series. This upset and worried Richardson (who...
Publishing Dorothy Richardson
After reading volume twelve (Dimple Hill) in 1937, Richard Church was enthusiastic (he liked the novel better than Clear Horizon) and prepared to go ahead with publishing the collection. However, his plan...
Material Conditions of Writing Dorothy Richardson
DR began writing March Moonlight, the last segment of Pilgrimage, in 1938, before the publication of the first collected edition. However, she put it aside for various reasons, including the Second World War...
Reception Dorothy Richardson
Her publisher Richard Church of Dent had organised a group of people, including novelist Hugh Walpole , to write on her behalf to Prime Minister Chamberlain . The pension allowed Richardson and her husband relief...

Timeline

1888: J. M. Dent established J. M. Dent and Company...

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1888

J. M. Dent established J. M. Dent and Company at 69 Great Eastern Street in London; the same year he began issuing the Temple Library, the first effort by a British publisher to...

1904: Publisher J. M. Dent began planning the Everyman's...

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1904

Publisher J. M. Dent began planning the Everyman's Library series, reprints of classic texts (including biographies, treatises of all sorts, plays, poems, travel and adventure writing) with introductions by experts.Everyman

By 27 September 1905: Scientist Grace Chisholm Young published...

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By 27 September 1905

Scientist Grace Chisholm Young published the first of two scientific books co-authored with her husband, William Henry Young : The First Book of Geometry.

February 1906: Publisher J. M. Dent launched Everyman's...

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February 1906

Publisher J. M. Dent launched Everyman's Library, aiming to reprint 1,000 classic titles: the first year's 155 volumes included Æschylus , Shakespeare , Jane Austen practically complete,
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell.
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and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu .

Texts

Baldwin, Louisa. The Shadow on the Blind, and Other Ghost Stories. J. M. Dent, 1895.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. J. M. Dent, 1958.
Breen, Jennifer, editor. Women Romantic Poets, 1785-1832. J. M. Dent, 1992.
Donne, John. The Complete English Poems of John Donne. Editor Patrides, Constantinos A., J. M. Dent, 1985.
Dowie, Ménie Muriel. Gallia. Editor Small, Helen, J. M. Dent, 1995.
Gordon, Giles, editor. Modern Short Stories 2, 1940-1980. J. M. Dent, 1982.
Hazlitt, William. The Collected Works of William Hazlitt. Editor Howe, Percival Presland, J. M. Dent, 1930.
Lamb, Charles, and Mary Lamb. The Letters of Charles Lamb. Editor Lucas, Edward Verrall, J. M. Dent, 1935.
Lockhart, John Gibson, and William Mathie Parker. The Life of Sir Walter Scott. J. M. Dent, 1957.
Lynch, Hannah. Dr. Vermont’s Fantasy and Other Stories. J. M. Dent, 1896.
Lynch, Hannah. Jinny Blake. J. M. Dent, 1897.
Paris, Gaston. Mediæval French Literature. Translator Lynch, Hannah, J. M. Dent, 1903.
Lynch, Hannah. Toledo. The Story of an Old Spanish Capital. J. M. Dent, 1899.
Lyons, Paddy, and Fidelis Morgan, editors. Female Playwrights of the Restoration: Five Comedies. J. M. Dent, 1991.
Macmillan, Hugh. The Life Work of George Frederic Watts, R.A. J. M. Dent, 1906.
Mary, Baroness Warnock, editor. Women Philosophers. J. M. Dent, 1996.
George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron,. “Introduction”. Byron’s Poems, edited by Vivian de Sola Pinto, J. M. Dent, 1968, p. 1: v - xx.
Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur Thomas, and Daphne Du Maurier. Castle Dor. J. M. Dent, 1962.
Robinson, Henry Crabb. Henry Crabb Robinson on Books and Their Writers. Editor Morley, Edith, J. M. Dent, 1938.
Schütze, Gladys Henrietta. Where Runs the River?. J. M. Dent, 1916.
Smedley, Constance, and Maxwell Armfield. Sylvia’s Travels. J. M. Dent, 1911.
Streatfeild, Noel. Ballet Shoes. J. M. Dent, 1936.
Streatfeild, Noel, and Steven Spurrier. The Circus is Coming. J. M. Dent, 1938.
Thomas, Dylan. Quite Early One Morning. J. M. Dent, 1954.
Thomas, Dylan. Twenty-Five Poems. J. M. Dent, 1936.