It was first published at London in 1905 by Methuen
.
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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
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.
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.
63
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
Michelene Wandor
MW
's Five Plays (confusingly titled just Plays on the paperback cover) reached print, published by Methuen
.
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
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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
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...
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...
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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
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...
Publishing
Margaret Roberts
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.
16
Publishing
Michèle Roberts
She began this book out of an impulse to think about where I came from, both genetically and socio-historically.
Roberts, Michèle. Paper Houses. Virago.
313
Keeping to her unalterable schedule of several hours reading a day, she did painstaking research...
Timeline
June 1889: Algernon Methuen Marshall Stedman founded...
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.