J. M. Dent

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...

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...

The great unpublished work of LR 's lifetime was a dictionary. Various groups of friends collaborated on the early phases of this project, first in Mallorca and then in London. Its ancestor was a modest...

That change in life-course, however, put a lengthy stop to work on the dictionary. On 8 September 1942, by which time she was working on it with Schuyler Jackson and a new contract had been...

She compiled these books (the former for The Temple English Literature Series for Schools) while she was writing and reviewing for the Saturday Westminster Gazette. Una and the Red Cross Knight was reissued...

The former Gladys Mendl, now GHS , first used a new pseudonym, Henrietta Leslie, on a novel called Where Runs the River?, published by J. M. Dent .

GS published through J. M. Dent her first book of verse for children, The Wise Book, with illustrations by her sister Millicent Sowerby .

Commissioned by Mabel Carey , children's editor at J. M. Dent , NS produced the first, most famous of her children's books, Ballet Shoes. It reworks the central situation of her first adult book, The Whicharts.

Written in London in the early days of World War Two, which felt like the end of civilization, it had an all-male cast, and was published posthumously in 1953 among her collected plays. In 1955...

DT 's second book, Twenty-Five Poems (its contents mostly reworked from his recent teenage years), was published by J. M. Dent . He had considered other titles, like Poems in Sequence or Poems in Progress.

EU published with J. M. Dent her study Jacopone da Todi , Poet and Mystic--1228-1306, a Spiritual Biography.

LV 's final major work, the historical novel Oswald von Wolkenstein: A Memoir of the Last Minnesinger of Tirol, was published by J. M. Dent and Company . LV wrote it at Florence and...

In the same year that she published her first novel for adults, MW followed her first two children's books with a third, Haphazard House. Written after the death of her husband, and taking death...