British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
1976
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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 | 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 |
Employer | Graham Greene | 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... |
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 | 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. prelims |
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 Gerber, Helmut E., editor. The English Short Story in Transition, 1880-1920. Pegasus. 131 |
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. 28 |
Textual Production | George Egerton | |
Publishing | George Egerton | 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... |
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... |
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... |
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 | 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 |
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