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...
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
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
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...
Publishing
Edna Lyall
EL
issued Derrick Vaughan, Novelist, a novel with perhaps some admixture of autobiography. It was serialised in Murray's Magazine before appearing as a volume from the new firm of Methuen
, costing 2s.6d.
Escreet, J. M. The Life of Edna Lyall. Longmans, Green and Co.
80
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Edna Lyall
Dedicated to her dear friend Mary Davies
(chief songstress of Wales),
Lyall, Edna. Derrick Vaughan, Novelist. Methuen.
prelims
it was the first book published by the then new firm of Methuen
.
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...
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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
.
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
Rose Macaulay
This went through a number of editions, including one from Methuen
in 1985.
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
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
Textual Production
Sarah Macnaughtan
Methuen
published the first edition of SM
's novel Peter and Jane.
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...
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Texts
Corelli, Marie. The Sorrows of Satan. Methuen, 1900.