Subsequent editions were published by Methuen and Co.
(the original publisher), D. Appleton
(in New York), and T. Nelson
. They continued appearing until 1930.
On the Other Side of the Latch, an autobiography by SJD
, was published by Methuen
in London; the US edition was titled The Crow's Nest.
Fowler, Marian. Redney: A Life of Sara Jeannette Duncan. Anansi, 1983.
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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, 1987.
174
Adaptation for television was suggested to her, and she...
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, 2007.
313
Keeping to her unalterable schedule of several hours reading a day, she did painstaking research...
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, 1990.
Harris, Mary J. Y. Memoirs of Frances Mary Peard. W. H. Smith, 1930.
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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...
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, 1971.
49
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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., 1904.
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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
Michelene Wandor
MW
's Five Plays (confusingly titled just Plays on the paperback cover) reached print, published by Methuen
.
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.
HO
, still a student, published her first novel, The Icarus Girl, with Bloomsbury Press
in the same month that her two plays, Juniper's Whitening and Victimese, were printed by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
.
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.
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Texts
Corelli, Marie. The Master-Christian. Methuen, 1900.
Corelli, Marie. The Sorrows of Satan. Methuen, 1895.
Corelli, Marie. The Sorrows of Satan. 42nd edition, Methuen, 1900.
