GG
also worked as director for two different London publishing houses: for Eyre and Spottiswoode
from 1944 (when he resigned from the secret service) to 1948 and for Bodley Head
for ten years beginning in...
Friends, Associates
Evelyn Sharp
ES
wrote later that at no time in her life did she make intimate friends easily. Most people she had to do with she liked up to a certain point only, but she could count...
Occupation
Ella D'Arcy
As well as a writer, EDA
was an editor, assistant to Henry Harland
on the avant-garde Yellow Book, published by John Lane
of the Bodley Head
. Sources agree on this, though she herself...
Occupation
Harriet Shaw Weaver
HSW
was stringent about granting permission to use Joyce's texts (for which the demand was such that the Board of Trade
's paper restrictions often impeded projects to reprint), and insisted that foreign rights should...
Publishing
Muriel Spark
Dutton
issued The Stories of Muriel Spark in the USA (in which only six pieces were unpublished); an English edition followed two years later as Collected Stories, her last book with Bodley Head
.
Rees, David. Muriel Spark, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, A Bibliography of their First Editions. Colophon Press, 1992.
17
Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2009.
473-4
Publishing
George Egerton
After receiving Gill's advice, GE
sent the manuscript to William Heinemann
, who promptly returned it, saying he was not interested in publishing mediocre short stories.
Egerton, George. A Leaf from the Yellow Book. Editor White, Terence de Vere, Richards Press, 1958.
The book was not at the time published in the US or registered with the Library of Congress
. The result was a pirated edition, and largely for this reason MS
set about revising it...
GE
's publishing relationship with Lane
ended in 1898 over poor sales of her later titles and Bodley Head
's increasing demands for more popular, accessible work.Grant Richards
(who like her had published in...
Publishing
Julia Constance Fletcher
The title-page records publication both in London (in the Mayfair Series from John Lane
of the Bodley Head
) and New York (from the Merriam Company
).
Other books in the Mayfair Series were Select...
Publishing
Amabel Williams-Ellis
Writing as mother and grandmother, novelist and social historian,
qtd. in
British Book News. British Council.
(1953): 8
AWE
published with Bodley HeadThe Art of Being a Parent.
Publishing
Rosamund Marriott Watson
She had entered negotiations with Lane
about the book's publication in January 1902: although she was keen for her friend to publish the book, she threatened in a letter to make an abrupt change of...
Reception
Lucy Boston
The Knowe novels were well received and sold well. Jasper Rose was asked to write a Bodley Head
monograph about LB
in 1965, and The Children of Green Knowe was dramatised for television during the...
Reception
Rosemary Sutcliff
Sutcliffe's high reputation brought her the honour of a monograph in the Bodley Head
series on children's writers (1962, authored by Margaret Meek
). In 1983, she appeared on the popular radio programme Desert Island Discs.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
By September 1955: Baby and Child Care, by the US physician...
Building item
By September 1955
Baby and Child Care, by the US physician Benjamin Spock
, was published in the UK by Bodley Head
: among its middle-class readership it inaugurated a new era of child-centred parenting.
British Book News. British Council.
(1955): 1237-8
Texts
Anspach, Elizabeth, Margravine of. “Introduction”. The Beautiful Lady Craven, edited by Lewis Saul Benjamin and Alexander Meyrick Broadley, Bodley Head, 1914, p. i - cxxxviii.
Boston, Lucy. Memory in a House. Bodley Head, 1973.
Boston, Lucy. Perverse and Foolish. Bodley Head, 1979.
Boston, Lucy, and Margery Gill. The Castle of Yew. Bodley Head, 1965.
Boston, Lucy, and Peter Boston. The Stones of Green Knowe. Bodley Head, 1976.