This play, like all those BL
has written with and for theatre groups, is a work of collaboration, much of which emerged during workshops and rehearsals. It was published in 1990 in The Wild Bunch...
Employer
John Buchan
JB
took a publishing job with the firm of Nelson
, and stood unsuccessfully for parliament. Although judged not physically fit for military service in the First World War, he joined the Intelligence Corps
as...
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, 13 June 1912, p. 247.
247
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.
Publishing
E. Nesbit
Biographer Julia Briggs
believes that the original story was stimulated by EN
's writing about her own schooldays for the Girls' Own Paper.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
The composite book of tales appeared in instalments in The Windsor...
Publishing
John Buchan
JB
published the first 50,000-word instalment in his monumental twenty-four-volume Nelson
's History of the War.
Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press, 1996.
115
Smith, Janet Adam. John Buchan: A Biography. R. Hart-Davis, 1965.
193
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Publishing
Flora Annie Steel
This novel was initially rejected by Macmillan
. They cited weakness in the writing, but may in fact have feared the relative even-handedness of its treatment of the English and Indian viewpoints, in a context...
Reception
Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
Nelson
re-issued this book in a cheap edition that sold over 33,000 copies and was reprinted several times.
Watts, Marjorie, and Frances King. Mrs. Sappho. Duckworth, 1987.
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A film production company enquired into buying the film rights, on which CADS
commented, What shocking...
Reception
Alison Uttley
The Country Child was praised by the Times Literary Supplement, the Manchester Guardian (as a little masterpiece), the Times Educational Supplement (which likened Uttley to Laura Ingalls Wilder
), the Evening News...