Methuen

Connections

Connections Author name Sort descending Excerpt
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 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
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...
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...
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 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
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
Textual Production Sarah Daniels
SD 's Plays, One appeared from Methuen in 1991, as did her Plays, Two in 1994.
Textual Production Shelagh Delaney
Methuen published SD 's hit play A Taste of Honey.
Delaney, Shelagh. A Taste of Honey. Methuen.
prelims
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...
Publishing Ménie Muriel Dowie
It was published simultaneously in New York with C. Scribner's Sons and in London with Methuen and Co.
Dowie, Ménie Muriel. Gallia. Editor Small, Helen, J. M. Dent.
xiv
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Maureen Duffy
MD tackled a piece of publishing history in A Thousand Capricious Chances: History of the Methuen List, 1889-1989.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
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.
240
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.
Publishing Zoë Fairbairns
This book, published by Methuen , came out in paperback in the year following the hardback edition. Again ZF felt she had supportive editing.
Fairbairns, Zoë et al., editors. More Tales I Tell My Mother. Journeyman.
174
Adaptation for television was suggested to her, and she...

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.