Methuen

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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.
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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 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 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 Kathleen E. Innes
KEI and George Peabody Gooch co-edited Methuen 's series Histories of the Peoples.
Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta.
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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.
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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.
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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 Beatrice Harraden
The present Royal Holloway College (merged with Bedford) holds correspondence with Methuen and Co. dating from 1907-09 which includes letters of advice from BH . A projected book on Ruskin is discussed and another, on...
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.
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Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press.
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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.
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In his review for Plays and Players, Charles Spencer described it as an intense...
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...
Textual Production Alison Fell
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.
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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.
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Adaptation for television was suggested to her, and she...
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)
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Duncan, Sara Jeannette. The Path of a Star. Methuen, 1899.
Duncan, Sara Jeannette. The Pool in the Desert. Methuen, 1903.
El Saadawi, Nawal. Death of an Ex-Minister. Translator Eber, Shirley, Methuen, 1987.
El Saadawi, Nawal. The Fall of the Imam. Translator Hetata, Sherif, Methuen, 1988.
El Saadawi, Nawal. The Innocence of the Devil. Translator Hetata, Sherif, Methuen, 1994.
Eliot, T. S. The Sacred Wood. Methuen.
Fairbairns, Zoë. Closing. Methuen, 1987.
Fairbairns, Zoë. Daddy’s Girls. Methuen, 1991.
Fairbairns, Zoë. Here Today. Methuen, 1984.
Fell, Alison. Mer de Glace. Methuen, 1991.
Fenwick, Eliza, and Mary Hays. The Fate of the Fenwicks. Editor Wedd, Annie F., Methuen, 1927.
Figes, Eva. Journey to Nowhere. Methuen, 2007.
Fitzsimmons, Linda. “Githa Sowerby (1876-1970)”. New Woman Plays, edited by Linda Fitzsimmons and Viv Gardner, Methuen, 1991, pp. 135-7.
Fitzsimmons, Linda, and Viv Gardner, editors. New Woman Plays. Methuen, 1991.
Frankau, Julia. Joseph in Jeopardy. Methuen, 1912.
Fraser, Antonia. The Weaker Vessel: Woman’s Lot in Seventeenth-Century England. Methuen, 1985.
Gems, Pam. “Afterword to ’Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi’”. Plays by Women: Volume One, edited by Michelene Wandor, Methuen, 1982, pp. 71-3.
Gems, Pam. “Aunt Mary”. Plays by Women: Volume Three, edited by Michelene Wandor, Methuen, 1984, pp. 13-46.
Gems, Pam. “Putting on the Style”. Plays by Women: Volume Three, edited by Michelene Wandor and Michelene Wandor, Methuen, 1984, pp. 47-8.
Gerard, Dorothea. The Conquest of London. Methuen, 1900.
Glover, Evelyn. “A Chat with Mrs. Chicky”. How the Vote Was Won: and Other Suffragette Plays, edited by Dale Spender and Carole Hayman, Methuen, 1985, pp. 103-13.
Glover, Evelyn. “Miss Appleyard’s Awakening”. How the Vote Was Won: and Other Suffragette Plays, edited by Dale Spender and Carole Hayman, Methuen, 1985, pp. 115-24.
Guerinot, Joseph Vincent. Pamphlet Attacks on Alexander Pope 1711-1744, A Descriptive Bibliography. Methuen, 1969.
Hamilton, Cicely. “Diana of Dobson’s”. New Woman Plays, edited by Linda Fitzsimmons and Viv Gardner, Methuen, 1991, pp. 27-77.
Harraden, Beatrice. Interplay. Methuen, 1908.