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.
Publishing
Julia Frankau
As usual for fiction, she published as Frank Danby. This novel's length (120,000 words) provoked Marie Belloc Lowndes
to joke about the episodes of jeopardy being recurrent. JF
feared in 1911 that Methuen
would...
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...
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...
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...
Textual Production
Beatrice Harraden
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
Publishing
Beatrice Harraden
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
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.
Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta.
213
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
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...
Textual Features
Margaret Kennedy
Methuen
had originally envisioned a Century Series, of which Kennedy's volume was to be a part. Though the series never actualised, MK
insisted on fulfilling her contract because of the experience it would give...
Textual Production
D. H. Lawrence
DHL
's novel The Rainbow was published by Methuen
; six weeks later, copies of the book were destroyed as a result of court action.
Roberts, Warren. A Bibliography of D.H. Lawrence. Hart-Davis.
27
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...
Publishing
Marie Belloc Lowndes
MBL
's novel The End of her Honeymoon appeared. Although it had by January 1915 made the publishers enough money to cover the author's advance, she decided that this would be her last work from Methuen
.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus.
49
Timeline
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Texts
Corelli, Marie. The Sorrows of Satan. Methuen, 1900.