Methuen

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Publishing F. Mabel Robinson
Methuen re-issued it in a third edition, 1890, as the second title in its new Methuen's Novel series, which was to feature handsome and attractive presentations of novels by well-known Authors. Meanwhile it had...
Textual Production Edith Somerville
Some of the pieces had already appeared in periodicals.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.
261
The book was published, like three later works, by Methuen .
Cummins, Geraldine. Dr. E. Œ. Somerville: A Biography. Andrew Dakers.
266, 268, 270
Textual Production Josephine Tey
She wrote the novel in less than three weeks (a contrast to the months or years spent on Kif) for a thriller writers' competition run by Methuen , with a prize of £250. She...
Textual Production Sue Townsend
Four plays by ST were published: Bazaar and Rummage, Groping for Words, Womberang (issued in a single volume), and a Methuen edition of The Great Celestial Cow, which also appeared this year...
Publishing Violet Trefusis
Echo was published in English by Methuen in 1988; it was translated by Siân Miles with an introduction by John Phillips .
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Textual Production 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.
43
Underhill, Evelyn. The Column of Dust. Methuen.
back matter
Textual Production Michelene Wandor
MW 's Five Plays (confusingly titled just Plays on the paperback cover) reached print, published by Methuen .
Dated by the Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
Wandor, Michelene. Five Plays. Journeyman.
Textual Production Michelene Wandor
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.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Michelene Wandor. http://www.mwandor.co.uk/.
Textual Production Michelene Wandor
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...
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.
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The collection includes MW 's own Care and Control, as well as...
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 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 Oscar Wilde
It was first published at London in 1905 by Methuen .
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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.