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.
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.
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
Michelene Wandor
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.
63
The collection includes MW
's own Care and Control, as well as...
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.
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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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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
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.
47
In his review for Plays and Players, Charles Spencer
described it as an intense...
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.
221
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...
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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Texts
Harraden, Beatrice. “Lady Geraldine’s Speech”. How the Vote Was Won, and Other Suffragette Plays, edited by Dale Spender and Carole Hayman, Methuen, 1985, pp. 93-8.
Harraden, Beatrice. The Guiding Thread. Methuen, 1916.
Harraden, Beatrice. The Scholar’s Daughter. Methuen, 1906.
Harraden, Beatrice. Thirteen All Told. Methuen, 1921.
Hayman, Carole, and Dale Spender, editors. How the Vote Was Won: and Other Suffragette Plays. Methuen, 1985.
Hays, Mary, and John Eccles. The Love Letters of Mary Hays (1779-1780). Editor Wedd, Annie F., Methuen, 1925.
Herron, Carolivia. “Milton and Afro-American literature”. Re-Membering Milton, edited by Mary Nyquist and Margaret W. Ferguson, Methuen, 1987, pp. 278-00.
Hull, E. M. The Captive of Sahara. Methuen, 1931.
Hunt, Violet. The Human Interest. Methuen, 1899.
James, Henry. The Ambassadors. Methuen, 1903.
Jellicoe, Ann. Community Plays. Methuen, 1987.
Jennings, Elizabeth, editor. An Anthology of Modern Verse, 1940-1960. Methuen, 1961.
Kane, Sarah. Cleansed. Methuen, 1998.
Kaplan, Cora. “Pandora’s Box: Subjectivity, Class and Sexuality in Socialist Feminist Criticism”. Making a Difference: Feminist Literary Criticism, edited by Gayle Greene and Coppélia Kahn, Methuen, 1985, pp. 146-76.
Kay, Jackie. “Afterword to Chiaroscuro”. Lesbian Plays, edited by Jill Davis, Methuen, 1987, pp. 82-3.
Kay, Jackie. “Chiaroscuro”. Lesbian Plays, edited by Jill Davis, Methuen, 1987, pp. 57-81.
Kazantzis, Judith. Flame Tree. Methuen, 1988.
Kennedy, Margaret. A Century of Revolution, 1789-1920. Methuen, 1922.
Kipling, Rudyard. Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other Verses. Methuen, 1892.
Lamb, Charles, and Mary Lamb. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Editor Lucas, Edward Verrall, Methuen, 1905.
Lawless, Emily. A Garden Diary. Methuen, 1901.
Lawrence, D. H. The Rainbow. Methuen, 1915.
Layard, George Somes. Mrs. Lynn Linton: Her Life, Letters, and Opinions. Methuen, 1901.
Trefusis, Violet. “Introduction”. Violet to Vita, edited by Mitchell A. Leaska, Methuen, 1989, pp. 1-52.
Levy, Deborah. “The B File”. Walks on Water, edited by Deborah Levy, Methuen, 1992, pp. 139-57.
