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...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Baker
Sidgwick and Jackson
published Miss Tassey in 1913. Cupid in Clapham did not appear in print until several years later, in French
's series One-Act Plays for Stage and Study, 1927.
Textual Production
Elizabeth Baker
The programme also included Act II of Elizabeth Robins
's Votes for Women.
Weiss, Rudolf. “Versions of Emancipation: The Dramatic World of Elizabeth Baker”. Sprachkunst, Vol.
Two more of EB
's one-act plays opened at regional theatres. Beastly Pride, a romantic comedy, was first performed at the Grand Theatre
in Croydon, Surrey, on 19 March 1914. Umbrellas (subtitled A...
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.
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Bentley, Phyllis. "O Dreams, O Destinations". Gollancz.
147
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...
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.
19-20, 73-4
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
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.
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.
Kazantzis, Judith et al. Touch Papers. Allison and Busby.
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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)...
Textual Production
Judith Kazantzis
JK
's first mainstream volume of poetry, Minefield, was issued through the publisher Sidgwick and Jackson
.
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
Rose Macaulay
Many of the poems here, according to a friend, were written on trains.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape.