It was, she said, an adaptation from a play by H. V. Esmond
entitled Birds of a Feather, whose chief role was an old Jew, grand, petty, noble, and inglorious, generous and impossibly mean—but...
Publishing
Naomi Jacob
The title is a phrase used to describe the evangelist St Luke
. This seems to have been the last novel that NJ
published through Thornton Butterworth
before switching to Hutchinson
.
Publishing
Naomi Jacob
This novel was published by Hutchinson
, to whom NJ
moved from Butterworth
as a result of the lucrative, long-standing contract negotiated with Hutchinson by her agent, Raymond Savage
.
Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin), 2001.