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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Anthologization
Deborah Levy
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.
160
It was published on its own in 1977, then reprinted in Methuen
's first...
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
Marie Corelli
This book appeared anonymously, but it quickly came to be known that MC
had co-authored it, along with Eric Mackay
(her half-brother) and Henry Labouchere
.
As the extent of Mackay and Labouchere's contribution is...
Publishing
Beatrice Harraden
BH
chose another new publisher, Nelson
, for her novel Out of the Wreck I Rise, before returning with her next to Methuen
.
Campbell, Gerald FitzGerald. “Out of the Wreck I Rise”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 544, p. 247.
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Publishing
Sarah Macnaughtan
Subsequent editions were published by Methuen and Co.
(the original publisher), D. Appleton
(in New York), and T. Nelson
. They continued appearing until 1930.
The volume was rejected by several major play publishers, including Methuen
, before the socialist Journeyman Press
agreed to take it.
Wandor, Michelene. “Women playwrights and the challenge of feminism in the 1970s”. Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights, edited by Elaine Aston and Janelle Reinelt, Cambridge University Press, pp. 53-68.
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The collection includes MW
's own Care and Control, as well as...
Publishing
B. M. Croker
Having already clocked up four different London publishers, BMC
issued Angel: A Sketch in Indian Ink through another one, Methuen
. She went on to use several more publishing firms after this.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
36575 (2 October 1901): 6
Publishing
Louise Page
It was issued in print in 1986, collaboratively by the Women's Playhouse Trust
and Methuen
, inaugurating this innovative joint publishing venture. The edition has the Old Vic
programme bound into its centre.
Page, Louise. Beauty and the Beast. Methuen in association with the Women’s Playhouse Trust.
between 22 and 23
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...
MR
's final book, appeared (as by the author of Madmoiselle Mori): a study of Saint Catherine of Siena
and Her Times, which was commissioned from her by Methuen
when she was over seventy.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Harris, Mary J. Y. Memoirs of Frances Mary Peard. W. H. Smith.
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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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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.