Methuen

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Textual Production Nawal El Saadawi
NES 's Death of an Ex-Minister, a short-story collection, was published by Methuen in an English translation by Shirley Eber .
Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
(1988)
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 Edith Somerville
Some of the pieces had already appeared in periodicals.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.
261
The book was published, like three later works, by Methuen .
Cummins, Geraldine. Dr. E. Œ. Somerville: A Biography. Andrew Dakers.
266, 268, 270
Textual Production Josephine Tey
She wrote the novel in less than three weeks (a contrast to the months or years spent on Kif) for a thriller writers' competition run by Methuen , with a prize of £250. She...
Textual Production Alison Fell
AF issued through Methuen her next novel: Mer de Glace (Sea of Ice), the name of the largest glacier in France, which flows down the north side of Mont Blanc into the valley of Chamonix.
“Alison Fell”. Fantastic Fiction.
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.
Textual Production Sue Townsend
Four plays by ST were published: Bazaar and Rummage, Groping for Words, Womberang (issued in a single volume), and a Methuen edition of The Great Celestial Cow, which also appeared this year...
Textual Production Rose Allatini
Rose Allatini published the third of her Lucian Wainwright novels, Oracle, this time with Methuen ; its title-page mentions her two earlier books under this name.
Dated from the Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
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 Hannah Lynch
The book, dedicated to HL 's friend Rosamond Venning , was published by Methuen and Co. like the novel that immediately preceded it into print.
Textual Production Ivy Compton-Burnett
After her previous book's success, she had acquired an agent (David Higham of Curtis Brown , who also handled Rose Macaulay and Vita Sackville-West ). In later years she dealt with Spencer Curtis Brown
Textual Production Hannah Lynch
In 1892 HL published with Methuen a translation of The History of Florence from the Domination of the Medici to the Fall of the Republic by François Tommy Perrens (whose title is also given as...
Textual Production Evelyn Underhill
EU 's final attempt at fiction, another spiritual novel entitled The Column of Dust, was published by Methuen .
Greene, Dana. Evelyn Underhill: Artist of the Infinite Life. Crossroad.
43
Underhill, Evelyn. The Column of Dust. Methuen.
back matter
Textual Production Marie Corelli
MC published Barabbas, A Dream of the World's Tragedy, her first novel with Methuen .
Keating, Peter John, and Marie Corelli. “Introduction”. The Sorrows of Satan, Oxford University Press, p. ix - xx.
ix
Ransom, Teresa. The Mysterious Miss Marie Corelli: Queen of Victorian Bestsellers. Sutton.
75
Textual Production Pam Gems
The play's development was influenced by another project PG was working on at the time, a translation of Uncle Vanya. Her own play, she explains, was much influenced by Chekhov , I had tried...
Textual Production Michelene Wandor
MW 's Five Plays (confusingly titled just Plays on the paperback cover) reached print, published by Methuen .
Dated by the Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
Wandor, Michelene. Five Plays. Journeyman.
Textual Production Marie Corelli
"Temporal Power": A Study in Supremacy, a novel by MC , was published by Methuen .
Nufftus, William, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 156. Gale Research.
156: 85
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
36 (19 September 1902): 208
Textual Production Michelene Wandor
MW edited the first volume in an influential series from Methuen : Plays by Women, in which she included work by Caryl Churchill , Pam Gems , and Louise Page along with her own play Aurora Leigh.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Michelene Wandor. http://www.mwandor.co.uk/.

Timeline

June 1889: Algernon Methuen Marshall Stedman founded...

Writing climate item

June 1889

Algernon Methuen Marshall Stedman founded Methuen and Company at 19 Bury Street, London.

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.