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...
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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.
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Underhill, Evelyn. The Column of Dust. Methuen.
back matter
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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.
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Ransom, Teresa. The Mysterious Miss Marie Corelli: Queen of Victorian Bestsellers. Sutton.
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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...
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Michelene Wandor
MW
's Five Plays (confusingly titled just Plays on the paperback cover) reached print, published by Methuen
.
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
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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...
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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...
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Helen Oyeyemi
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
.
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.
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...
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Texts
Corelli, Marie. The Sorrows of Satan. Methuen, 1900.