qtd. in
Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph, 1966.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Literary responses | Dorothy Whipple | A reader at Curtis Brown
praised DW
's very shrewd and natural gift of depicting her middle-class characters, while Lord Gorell
at John Murray
wrote: Much her best work and the former was good. qtd. in Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph, 1966. 23 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Githa Sowerby | She had worked on it during a visit to Sutton Courtenay just before she was married, and finished it in late 1913. Curtis Brown
had wanted her to produce something more light-hearted, but several theatre... |
Publishing | Jan Struther | At the turn of the year 1948-9, JS
's new agent Curtis Brown
(succeeding to A. P. Watt
) returned a poem that had been rejected by eight magazines. Others were rejected by even more... |
Publishing | Stevie Smith | A reader with Curtis Brown Literary Agency
rejected the poems as neurotic but also noted there may be some power in them which she [the reader] has failed to find. qtd. in Spalding, Frances. Stevie Smith: A Critical Biography. Faber and Faber, 1988. 89 |
Publishing | Mollie Panter-Downes | MPD
began submitting material to the New Yorker in or before 1937, against the judgement of her agent, Nancy Pearn
of Curtis Brown
, who is said to have exclaimed: Oh no dear, no, no... |
Publishing | Rumer Godden | In India around 1927 RG
showed some of her short stories to the acknowledged literary queen of Dacca, who passed them to a literary agent in London, Curtis Brown Ltd
. Godden, Rumer. A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep. Macmillan, 1987. 70 |
Publishing | Rumer Godden | RG
's first completed novel, Gők, was accepted for handling by Curtis Brown Ltd
on 20 February 1934, but did not find a publisher. Godden, Rumer. A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep. Macmillan, 1987. 106, 109 |
Publishing | Naomi Jacob | It was, she said, an adaptation from a play by H. V. Esmond
entitled Birds of a Feather, whose chief role was an old Jew, grand, petty, noble, and inglorious, generous and impossibly mean—but... |
Publishing | Margery Allingham | Early in her work on this novel, MA
left her English agent, A. P. Watt
and moved to Curtis Brown
. Martin, Richard, 1934 -. Ink in Her Blood: The Life and Crime Fiction of Margery Allingham. UMI Research Press, 1988. 204 |
Publishing | Angela Brazil | She wrote and rewrote this story three times before sending it to a publisher. After putting out this novel Blackie
remained her primary publisher for most of her forty -years' output, and the head of... |
Publishing | Daphne Du Maurier | DDM
left Heinemann
to publish this book with Victor Gollancz
(a successful upstart seeking to promote best-selling works, and in time a leading and respected left-wing publisher). Her agent, Curtis Brown
, urged her to... |
Publishing | Dorothy Whipple | DW
must have been writing and publishing stories before her first novel appeared, since she was working on High Wages when her Miss Boddy was printed in Everyman and she recorded it as her first... |
Publishing | Dorothy Whipple | She had the idea for this book about a country house family, requiring detailed knowledge of cricket, while sitting in the hot sun shortly after her previous novel appeared. The new idea made her pulse... |
Publishing | Mary Wesley | She began writing seriously after the war, driven by the need for money. Siepmann had no job and they both intended to earn by writing. By 1947 she had apparently completed the draft of one... |
Textual Production | Josephine Tey | She did not confide in friends that she had written a book until it was actually in print. She used Curtis Brown
as an agent but did not reveal her identity or her gender to... |
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