Curtis Brown Ltd

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.SS resubmitted her poetry...

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...

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 . The firm...

RG 's first completed novel, Gők, was accepted for handling by Curtis Brown Ltd on 20 February 1934, but did not find a publisher.

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...

Early in her work on this novel, MA left her English agent, A. P. Watt and moved to Curtis Brown . She thought of this work as organically related to her two previous ones...

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...

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...

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...