The Magdalena Project (https://themagdalenaproject.org/en/) is an international cross-cultural network facilitating production, visibility, and critical discussion of theatre and performance by women. The play has an all-female cast, described on the playwrights website doollee.com (which mistakenly...
Anthologization
Pam Gems
The play was revived under the new title at London's Hampstead Theatre
in December of the same year.
Lloyd Evans, Gareth, and Barbara Lloyd-Evans, editors. Plays in Review, 1956-1980: British Drama and the Critics. Methuen.
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Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press.
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It was published on its own in 1977, then reprinted in Methuen
's first...
Anthologization
Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
Emmeline Pethick (later EPL
) contributed an essay on Working Girls' Clubs to Will Reason
's University and Social Settlements, which appeared in Methuen
's Social Questions of To-Day series.
Brittain, Vera. Pethick-Lawrence: A Portrait. George Allen and Unwin.
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Literary responses
Pam Gems
Although the play seemed to be well received during the previews, it received a bad press on opening night.
Gems, Pam. “Putting on the Style”. Plays by Women: Volume Three, edited by Michelene Wandor and Michelene Wandor, Methuen, pp. 47-8.
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In his review for Plays and Players, Charles Spencer
described it as an intense...
Performance of text
Louise Page
LP
's comedy Diplomatic Wives premiered at WatfordPalace Theatre
; its publication by Methuen
was timed to coincide with this event.
Page, Louise. Diplomatic Wives. Methuen.
prelims
Publishing
Michèle Roberts
She began this book out of an impulse to think about where I came from, both genetically and socio-historically.
Roberts, Michèle. Paper Houses. Virago.
313
Keeping to her unalterable schedule of several hours reading a day, she did painstaking research...
Publishing
Sara Jeannette Duncan
On the Other Side of the Latch, an autobiography by SJD
, was published by Methuen
in London; the US edition was titled The Crow's Nest.
Fowler, Marian. Redney: A Life of Sara Jeannette Duncan. Anansi.
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Publishing
F. Mabel Robinson
Methuen
re-issued it in a third edition, 1890, as the second title in its new Methuen's Novel series, which was to feature handsome and attractive presentations of novels by well-known Authors. Meanwhile it had...
Publishing
Marie Belloc Lowndes
MBL
's novel The End of her Honeymoon appeared. Although it had by January 1915 made the publishers enough money to cover the author's advance, she decided that this would be her last work from Methuen
.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus.
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Publishing
Zoë Fairbairns
This book, published by Methuen
, came out in paperback in the year following the hardback edition. Again ZF
felt she had supportive editing.
Fairbairns, Zoë et al., editors. More Tales I Tell My Mother. Journeyman.
174
Adaptation for television was suggested to her, and she...
Publishing
Edna Lyall
EL
issued Derrick Vaughan, Novelist, a novel with perhaps some admixture of autobiography. It was serialised in Murray's Magazine before appearing as a volume from the new firm of Methuen
, costing 2s.6d.
Escreet, J. M. The Life of Edna Lyall. Longmans, Green and Co.
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Publishing
Edna Lyall
Dedicated to her dear friend Mary Davies
(chief songstress of Wales),
Lyall, Edna. Derrick Vaughan, Novelist. Methuen.
prelims
it was the first book published by the then new firm of Methuen
.
As usual for fiction, she published as Frank Danby. This novel's length (120,000 words) provoked Marie Belloc Lowndes
to joke about the episodes of jeopardy being recurrent. JF
feared in 1911 that Methuen
would...
Publishing
Violet Trefusis
Echo was published in English by Methuen
in 1988; it was translated by Siân Miles
with an introduction by John Phillips
.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Publishing
Rose Macaulay
This went through a number of editions, including one from Methuen
in 1985.
Timeline
June 1889: Algernon Methuen Marshall Stedman founded...
1980: The Women's Playhouse Trust was founded to...
Women writers item
1980
The Women's Playhouse Trust
was founded to improve opportunities in the theatre for women writers, directors, designers, administrators, technicians and actresses,
Page, Louise. Beauty and the Beast. Methuen in association with the Women’s Playhouse Trust.
between 22 and 23
building on feminist fringe activity but within the mainstream.
Texts
Allatini, Rose. Oracle. Methuen, 1937.
Baker, Elizabeth. “Chains”. New Woman Plays, edited by Linda Fitzsimmons and Viv Gardner, Methuen, 1991, pp. 79-131.
Baldwin, Louisa. Afterglow. Methuen, 1911.
Behn, Aphra. Five Plays. Editor Duffy, Maureen, Methuen, 1990.
Behn, Aphra, and Maureen Duffy. Oroonoko and Other Stories. Methuen, 1986.
Bellerby, Frances. Come to an End. Methuen, 1939.
Bensusan, Inez. “The Apple”. How the Vote Was Won: and Other Suffragette Plays, edited by Dale Spender and Carole Hayman, Methuen, 1985, pp. 139-54.
Bowen, Marjorie. William Hogarth. Methuen, 1936.
Brockway, Wallace, and Herbert Weinstock. The World of Opera. Methuen, 1963.
Caffyn, Kathleen. Anne Mauleverer. Methuen, 1899.
Cambridge, Ada. Thirty Years in Australia. Methuen, 1903.
Castle, Terry. Masquerade and Civilisation. Methuen, 1986.
Churchill, Caryl. Plays: One. Methuen, 1985.
Churchill, Caryl. Serious Money. Methuen, 1990.
Churchill, Caryl. Softcops. Methuen, 1984.
Churchill, Caryl. Top Girls. Methuen, 1984.
Cobban, Alan B. The Medieval Universities: Their Development and and Organization. Methuen, 1975.
Conrad, Joseph. Chance. Methuen, 1914.
Conrad, Joseph. The Secret Agent. Methuen, 1907.
Conrad, Joseph. Under Western Eyes. Methuen, 1911.
Corelli, Marie. "Temporal Power". Methuen, 1902.
Corelli, Marie. Barabbas. Methuen, 1893.
Corelli, Marie. Love—and the Philosopher. Methuen, 1923.
Corelli, Marie. The Master-Christian. Methuen, 1900.
Corelli, Marie. The Sorrows of Satan. Methuen, 1895.