Methuen

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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.
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Publishing Sara Jeannette Duncan
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.
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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...
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.
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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.
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Publishing 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 .
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
1947 (27 May 1939): 310
Derrick Vaughan, Novelist reached...
Performance of text Louise Page
LP 's comedy Diplomatic Wives premiered at WatfordPalace Theatre ; its publication by Methuen was timed to coincide with this event.
Page, Louise. Diplomatic Wives. Methuen.
prelims
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...
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...
Anthologization Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
Emmeline Pethick (later EPL ) contributed an essay on Working Girls' Clubs to Will Reason 's University and Social Settlements, which appeared in Methuen 's Social Questions of To-Day series.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Brittain, Vera. Pethick-Lawrence: A Portrait. George Allen and Unwin.
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Anthologization Deborah Levy
The Magdalena Project (https://themagdalenaproject.org/en/) is an international cross-cultural network facilitating production, visibility, and critical discussion of theatre and performance by women. The play has an all-female cast, described on the playwrights website doollee.com (which mistakenly...

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Harraden, Beatrice. “Lady Geraldine’s Speech”. How the Vote Was Won, and Other Suffragette Plays, edited by Dale Spender and Carole Hayman, Methuen, 1985, pp. 93-8.
Harraden, Beatrice. The Guiding Thread. Methuen, 1916.
Harraden, Beatrice. The Scholar’s Daughter. Methuen, 1906.
Harraden, Beatrice. Thirteen All Told. Methuen, 1921.
Hayman, Carole, and Dale Spender, editors. How the Vote Was Won: and Other Suffragette Plays. Methuen, 1985.
Hays, Mary, and John Eccles. The Love Letters of Mary Hays (1779-1780). Editor Wedd, Annie F., Methuen, 1925.
Herron, Carolivia. “Milton and Afro-American literature”. Re-Membering Milton, edited by Mary Nyquist and Margaret W. Ferguson, Methuen, 1987, pp. 278-00.
Hull, E. M. The Captive of Sahara. Methuen, 1931.
Hunt, Violet. The Human Interest. Methuen, 1899.
James, Henry. The Ambassadors. Methuen, 1903.
Jellicoe, Ann. Community Plays. Methuen, 1987.
Jennings, Elizabeth, editor. An Anthology of Modern Verse, 1940-1960. Methuen, 1961.
Kane, Sarah. Cleansed. Methuen, 1998.
Kaplan, Cora. “Pandora’s Box: Subjectivity, Class and Sexuality in Socialist Feminist Criticism”. Making a Difference: Feminist Literary Criticism, edited by Gayle Greene and Coppélia Kahn, Methuen, 1985, pp. 146-76.
Kay, Jackie. “Afterword to Chiaroscuro”. Lesbian Plays, edited by Jill Davis, Methuen, 1987, pp. 82-3.
Kay, Jackie. “Chiaroscuro”. Lesbian Plays, edited by Jill Davis, Methuen, 1987, pp. 57-81.
Kazantzis, Judith. Flame Tree. Methuen, 1988.
Kennedy, Margaret. A Century of Revolution, 1789-1920. Methuen, 1922.
Kipling, Rudyard. Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other Verses. Methuen, 1892.
Lamb, Charles, and Mary Lamb. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Editor Lucas, Edward Verrall, Methuen, 1905.
Lawless, Emily. A Garden Diary. Methuen, 1901.
Lawrence, D. H. The Rainbow. Methuen, 1915.
Layard, George Somes. Mrs. Lynn Linton: Her Life, Letters, and Opinions. Methuen, 1901.
Trefusis, Violet. “Introduction”. Violet to Vita, edited by Mitchell A. Leaska, Methuen, 1989, pp. 1-52.
Levy, Deborah. “The B File”. Walks on Water, edited by Deborah Levy, Methuen, 1992, pp. 139-57.