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.
BH
published with Methuen
a novel entitled The Scholar's Daughter, which sounds like a bid to exploit the interest surrounding the great Oxford English Dictionary (still in course of publication).
Woolf, Virginia. The Essays of Virginia Woolf. Editors McNeillie, Andrew and Stuart Nelson Clarke, Hogarth Press.
1: 92n1
Textual Production
Sarah Macnaughtan
Methuen
published the first edition of SM
's novel Peter and Jane.
MW
carried out this adaptation jointly with director Mike Alfreds
, who read and discussed her drafts. In revising, his choices prevailed for stage presentation and hers for print. Of the process she wrote: I...
Textual Production
Marie Corelli
In retaliation to her earlier reviewers, MC
had Methuen
insert into each volume a notice that no review copies were being provided; she refused to pay any longer for copies of books that would yield...
HO
, still a student, published her first novel, The Icarus Girl, with Bloomsbury Press
in the same month that her two plays, Juniper's Whitening and Victimese, were printed by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
.
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Textual Production
Michelene Wandor
Methuen
's drama catalogue for 1981-2 had listed seventy-five playwrights, only two of them women (as was pointed out by Mary Remnant
, who succeeded to MW
as editor after the next three volumes in...
Textual Production
Sarah Daniels
SD
's Plays, One appeared from Methuen
in 1991, as did her Plays, Two in 1994.
Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta.
213
Textual Production
Fay Weldon
FW
joined distinguished writers such as Harold Pinter
in contributing to the multi-act Mixed Doubles: an Entertainment on Marriage, which was published in 1970 by Methuen
.
Halio, Jay L., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 14. Gale Research.
14: 752
Newman, Jenny. “’See Me as Sisyphus, But Having A Good Time’: The Fiction of Fay Weldon”. Contemporary British Women Writers: Texts and Strategies, edited by Robert E. Hosmer, Macmillan.
207
When, however, in the...
Textual Production
Shelagh Delaney
Methuen
published SD
's hit play A Taste of Honey.
Delaney, Shelagh. A Taste of Honey. Methuen.
prelims
Textual Production
Elizabeth Jennings
EJ
selected and introduced Methuen
's An Anthology of Modern Verse, 1940-1960.
The British National Bibliography. Council of the British National Bibliography; British Library, Bibliographic Services Division.
Textual Production
Oscar Wilde
It was first published at London in 1905 by Methuen
.
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Textual Production
Sarah Kane
SK
's first play, Blasted, appeared in print with plays by Karen Hope
, David Spencer
, and Rod Williams
in the second number of a Methuen
drama series, Frontline Intelligence: New Plays for...
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.