ES
's first play for children (based on a famous Victorian story), Thackeray
's Rose and the Ring, Dramatised in two acts, appeared in the anthology Plays for Schools, from her brother
's firm Sidgwick and Jackson
.
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Anthologization
Margaret Drabble
Along with her novels MD
has regularly published short stories. She edited a collection of such stories, An Anthology, in 1976.
Stovel, Nora Foster. “Introduction to Margaret Drabble”. Persuasions, Vol.
15
, p. 74.
74
The Reunion, which first appeared in Women Writing, ed. Denys...
Family and Intimate relationships
Judith Kazantzis
JK
's father, Francis Aungier Pakenham, was an Oxford
academic teaching political science when his daughter Judith was born. He was already a maverick: he commanded the Oxford Local Defence Volunteers
(later the Home Guard)...
Family and Intimate relationships
Ethel Sidgwick
Of the brothers, Frank
became an author and more importantly a publisher (founder of the firm of Sidgwick and Jackson
), while Hugh became a civil servant.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/, http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Arthur Sidgwick
Family and Intimate relationships
Antonia Fraser
AF
's father, born Francis Aungier (Frank) Pakenham, was an Oxford
academic whose subject was politics. He became the seventh Earl of Longford
in 1961, but he had already been made Baron Pakenham by Clement Attlee
Publishing
Judith Kazantzis
JK
published another poetry volume, The Wicked Queen. After this her publisher, Sidgwick and Jackson
, decided to discontinue its poetry list.
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Kazantzis, Judith, Michèle Roberts, and Michelene Wandor. Touch Papers. Allison and Busby, 1982.
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Publishing
Rose Macaulay
Many of the poems here, according to a friend, were written on trains.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.
NM
says this book came out at white heat and, what is more, I wrote all the best bits, the juicy bits, first, all the bits that were most exciting and satisfying to write, like...
Publishing
Githa Sowerby
The play was published that year in London by Sidgwick and Jackson
, and in New York (where it opened in December the same year with the same cast)
Riley, Patricia. Looking for Githa. New Writing North, 2009.
Flower of Youth was so popular that KT
's publishers, Sidgwick and Jackson
, printed and sold it as a leaflet, donating the profits to the Red Cross
.
Tynan, Katharine. The Years of the Shadow. Constable, 1919.
176
Publishing
Phyllis Bentley
PB
's third novel, The Spinner of the Years, was published by Ernest Benn
, after having been rejected by Sidgwick and Jackson
, her previous publisher.
Johnson, George M., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 191. Gale Research, 1998.
24
Bentley, Phyllis. "O Dreams, O Destinations". Gollancz, 1962.
147
Publishing
Elizabeth Bowen
It was published by Sidgwick and Jackson
, and re-issued with Ann Lee's and Other Stories in Early Stories on 8 January 1951.
Sellery, J’nan M., and William O. Harris. Elizabeth Bowen: A Bibliography. University of Texas, 1981.
19-20, 73-4
Textual Features
Phyllis Bentley
In Environment, PB
first introduces the fictional town of Hudley (based on Halifax), West Riding of Yorkshire, which was to be the main setting for most of her novels and short stories. The...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Baker
EB
wrote this and her later plays while in full-time employment. It and the other Court Theatre productions were put on by the Play Actors
society. Chains was revived in 1910 by Dion Boucicault
at...
Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
