Methuen

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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, 1986–2011, 6 vols.
1: 92n1
Textual Production Sarah Macnaughtan
Methuen published the first edition of SM 's novel Peter and Jane.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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 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...
Textual Production Maureen Duffy
MD tackled a piece of publishing history in A Thousand Capricious Chances: History of the Methuen List, 1889-1989.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
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 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, 1995.
213
Textual Production Edith Somerville
Some of the pieces had already appeared in periodicals.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber, 1968.
261
The book was published, like three later works, by Methuen .
Cummins, Geraldine. Dr. E. Œ. Somerville: A Biography. Andrew Dakers, 1952.
266, 268, 270
Textual Production Elizabeth Jennings
EJ selected and introducedMethuen 's An Anthology of Modern Verse, 1940-1960.
The British National Bibliography. Council of the British National Bibliography; British Library, Bibliographic Services Division, 1950.
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, 1988–2003.
(1988)
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 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 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.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
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, 1963.
27
Textual Production Rose Allatini
Rose Allatini published the third of her Lucian Wainwright novels, Oracle, this time with Methuen ; its title-page mentions her two earlier books under this name.
Dated from the Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.
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 Ivy Compton-Burnett
After her previous book's success, she had acquired an agent (David Higham of Curtis Brown , who also handled Rose Macaulay and Vita Sackville-West ). In later years she dealt with Spencer Curtis Brown

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Texts

Duncan, Sara Jeannette. On the Other Side of the Latch. Methuen, 1901.
Duncan, Sara Jeannette. The Burnt Offering. Methuen, 1909.
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.