Peter Davies
posthumously published the first of a three-volume collection of Plays by Gordon Daviot (also known as JT
), with a foreword by Sir John Gielgud
(though without any overview of Daviot's career to...
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Josephine Tey
At the end of 1945 JT
signed the contract, which gave her a royalty of five per cent, with various rights to the Citizens' Theatre. The opening in London (at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith
)...
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Christina Stead
At the outset of her literary career CS
published with Peter Davies
a remarkable collection of stories, The Salzburg Tales.
Rowley, Hazel. Christina Stead: A Biography. Secker and Warburg.
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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.
Anthologization
Edith Somerville
It had first appeared in the anthology, The Fairies Return, published by Peter Davies
.
Cummins, Geraldine. Dr. E. Œ. Somerville: A Biography. Andrew Dakers.
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Norah Lofts
NL
began using the pseudonym Peter Curtis
once she started writing crime novels, as she did not want to lose readers who preferred her historical fiction. She formed her masculine pseudonym by combining the name...
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Rumer Godden
RG
's second published novel, The Lady and the Unicorn, appeared from Peter Davies
.
Simpson, Hassell A. Rumer Godden. Twayne.
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Publishing
Rumer Godden
She wrote this novel, she said, in her father-in-law's surgery in a London suburb, pregnant, while her first husband enjoyed his leave on golf-courses up and down Britain. Her pekinese puppy (a breed which...