Bodley Head

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Georgette Heyer
Georgette Heyer 's fictionalised biography My Lord John was published posthumously by the Bodley Head .
Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
(1988)
Hodge, Jane Aiken. The Private World of Georgette Heyer. Bodley Head.
209
Textual Production Marjorie Bowen
It was published under the same title by the Bodley Head in London by October 1930.
Benstock, Bernard, and Thomas F. Staley, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 70. Gale Research.
70: 270
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
1499 (23 October 1930): 849
Textual Production Naomi Mitchison
Bodley Head issued the first volume of NM 's autobiography, Small Talk: Memoirs of an Edwardian Childhood.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
1976
Benton, Jill. Naomi Mitchison: A Biography. Pandora.
183
Textual Production Marjorie Bowen
Other plays followed. The Rocklitz was performed at the Duke of York's Theatre in London on 4 February 1931, having been published in 1930 by the Bodley Head in London and by Dodd, Mead (as...
Textual Production Evelyn Sharp
Evelyn Sharp published with John Lane 's Bodley Head (as Keynotes series No. 13) her very immature novel
Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head.
55
At the Relton Arms.
Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head.
57
Textual Production Agatha Christie
AC 's first detective novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (introducing her Belgian detective Hercule Poirot), was published in London by John Lane at Bodley Head and copyrighted as 1920.
Sanders, Dennis, and Len Lovallo. The Agatha Christie Companion. Delacorte.
9-10
Textual Production Lettice Cooper
LC contributed a volume, Great Men of Yorkshire (West Riding), to Bodley Head 's Men of the Counties series of collected biographies.
British Book News. British Council.
(1955): 1145
Textual Production Muriel Spark
MS 's next novel, Loitering with Intent, marked her change of publisher from Macmillan to Bodley Head .
Rees, David. Muriel Spark, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, A Bibliography of their First Editions. Colophon Press.
16
Oldsey, Bernard Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 15. Gale Research.
15: 491
Textual Production Ella D'Arcy
John Lane of the Bodley Head (publisher of The Yellow Book and one of the most innovative in the business during the 1890s) issued Monochromes, the first of two volumes which between them contain...
Textual Production Ella D'Arcy
John Lane of the Bodley Head published Modern Instances, his second of two volumes of stories by EDA .
The title, from Jacques' Seven Ages of Man speech in William ShakespeareAs You Like It...
Textual Production Ella D'Arcy
EDA published through the Bodley Head her single novel (or, at seventeen chapters, perhaps a novella). The title originally projected, Poor Human Nature, was apparently changed to The Bishop's Dilemma when Grant Richards issued...
Textual Production Noel Streatfeild
In 1961 NS had the honour of appearing in Bodley Head 's series of monographs on children's writers, where she joined such household names as Mary Louisa Molesworth , Juliana Horatia Ewing , Lewis Carroll
Textual Production George Egerton
John Lane , at the Bodley Head , included a rather self-consciously clever sketch by GE in the first issue of The Yellow Book,
Egerton, George. A Leaf from the Yellow Book. Editor White, Terence de Vere, Richards Press.
28
one of two she contributed to this journal during its run.
Gerber, Helmut E., editor. The English Short Story in Transition, 1880-1920. Pegasus.
131
Textual Production Rosemary Sutcliff
The same year as her book about historic houses, RS published a work which was much more a labour of love: Rudyard Kipling, in the Bodley Head 's series of monographs on writers for...
Textual Production Rosemary Sutcliff
RS published through the Bodley HeadSun Horse, Moon Horse, a historical novel for young people set in Iron Age Britain, with decorations by Shirley Felts . Her hero this time is Lubrin Dhu...

Timeline

September 1887: Charles Elkin Mathews, with John Lane as...

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September 1887

Charles Elkin Mathews , with John Lane as his silent partner, founded Bodley Head publishing house in Vigo Street, Mayfair, London.

1890s: John Lane of Bodley Head established the...

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1890s

John Lane of Bodley Head established the Eve's Library series.

April 1894: Aubrey Beardsley became art editor of The...

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April 1894

Aubrey Beardsley became art editor of The Yellow Book, published by John Lane at Bodley Head .

From 30 September 1894: Charles Elkin Mathews continued publishing...

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From 30 September 1894

Charles Elkin Mathews continued publishing independently at 6B Vigo Street, London, after the dissolution of his partnership with John Lane of Bodley Head .

1914: Margaret Louisa Woods's Collected Poems,...

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1914

Margaret Louisa Woods 's Collected Poems, containing lyrics and socially conscious poetry, was published by Bodley Head .

By September 1955: Baby and Child Care, by the US physician...

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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.

Texts

Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach,. “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.
Bowen, Marjorie. Captain Banner. Bodley Head, 1930.
Bowen, Marjorie, editor. Great Tales of Horror. Bodley Head, 1933.
Bowen, Marjorie. The Bishop of Hell and Other Stories. Bodley Head, 1949.
Clive, Caroline. Caroline Clive. Editor Clive, Mary, Bodley Head, 1949.
Cooper, Lettice. Great Men of Yorkshire (West Riding). Bodley Head, 1955.
Dickinson, Emily et al. A Letter to the World. Bodley Head, 1968.
Dunmore, Helen. Secrets. Bodley Head, 1994.
George Henry Hubert Lascelles, Earl of Harewood, editor. Kobbé’s Complete Opera Book. Bodley Head, 1987.
Green, Roger Lancelyn. Mrs. Molesworth. Bodley Head, 1961.
Greene, Graham, and Marjorie Bowen. “Introductory Note”. The Viper of Milan, Bodley Head, 1960, pp. 9-10.
Greene, Graham. The Human Factor. Bodley Head, 1978.
Hodge, Jane Aiken. The Private World of Georgette Heyer. Bodley Head, 1984.
Hyde, H. Montgomery. The <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="m">Lady Chatterley’s Lover</span> Trial. Bodley Head, 1990.
Hynes, Samuel. A War Imagined: The First World War and English Culture. Bodley Head, 1990.
Mitchison, Naomi, and William Stubbs. African Heroes. Bodley Head, 1968.
Mitchison, Naomi. All Change Here: Girlhood and Marriage. Bodley Head, 1975.
Mitchison, Naomi. Small Talk: Memories of an Edwardian Childhood. Bodley Head, 1973.
Oliver Lyttelton, first Viscount Chandos,. The Memoirs of Lord Chandos. Bodley Head, 1962.
Frankau, Pamela. “Introduction”. Colonel Blessington, edited by Diana Raymond, Bodley Head, 1968, pp. 5-6.
Rose, Jasper. Lucy Boston. Bodley Head, 1965.