Bodley Head

Connections

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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 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, 1992.
16
Oldsey, Bernard Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 15. Gale Research, 1983, 2 vols.
15: 491
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, 1958.
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, 1967.
131
Textual Production George Egerton
Her friendship with Lane , who published this collection, began to sour over the course of its writing.In a letter to him on 10 November 1896, GE acknowledged that the volume might not be an...
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, 1933.
55
At the Relton Arms.
Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head, 1933.
57
Textual Production Michael Field
Only 400 copies were printed by Charles Elkin Mathews and John Lane for Bodley Head .
Field, Michael. Sight and Song; with, Underneath the Bough. Editors Thornton, R. K. R. and Ian Small, Woodstock Books, 1993.
prelims
Textual Production Rumer Godden
Bodley Head issued RG 's A Letter to the World: poems for young readers: a selection from the work of Emily Dickinson (a poet she had discovered with, she said, instant recognition).
The...
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, 1988–2003.
(1988)
Hodge, Jane Aiken. The Private World of Georgette Heyer. Bodley Head, 1984.
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, 1988.
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 Rosamund Marriott Watson
John Lane of Bodley Head gave RMW a birthday present by publishing her fifth collection of poetry, After Sunset, on this day (bearing a date of 1904).
Hughes, Linda K. “A Woman Poet Angling for Notice: Rosamund Marriott Watson”. Marketing the Author: Authorial Personae, Narrative Selves and Self-Fashioning, 1880-1930, edited by Marysa Demoor and Marysa Demoor, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, pp. 134-55.
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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.
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, 1874–1987.
1976
Benton, Jill. Naomi Mitchison: A Biography. Pandora, 1992.
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 Rosamund Marriott Watson
The Poems of Rosamund Marriott Watson were posthumously published by John Lane at the Bodley Head .
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.
Watson, H. B. Marriott, and Rosamund Marriott Watson. “Introduction”. The Poems of Rosamund Marriott Watson, John Lane, Bodley Head, 1912, p. vii - ix.
ix
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, 1984.
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

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Texts

Spark, Muriel. Loitering with Intent. Bodley Head, 1981.
Sutcliff, Rosemary. Rudyard Kipling. Bodley Head, 1960.
Usborne, Karen. "Elizabeth": The Author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden. Bodley Head, 1986.
Williams-Ellis, Amabel. The Art of Being a Parent. Bodley Head, 1952.
Williams-Ellis, Amabel. The Art of Being a Woman. Bodley Head, 1951.
Wilson, Barbara Ker. Noel Streatfeild. Bodley Head, 1961.
Wood, Alan. The Groundnut Affair. Bodley Head, 1950.