Times Book Club

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Leisure and Society	Storm Jameson	In Kettering SJ found respite from a place she disliked in walking and in a subscription to the Times Book Club , which brought to her attention J. A. Symonds 's Renaissance in Italy and...
Literary responses	Rosamond Lehmann	Reviews were slow to appear, and according to RL 's brother John many of the early ones were lukewarm or even hostile. Lehmann, John. In My Own Time. Little, Brown, 1969. 82 However, the poet Alfred Noyes (a friend of their father) ecstatically praised...
Publishing	Helen Waddell	Abelard figured in her imagination as her ideal man, and on at least one occasion she dreamed that she herself was Heloise (as an abbess and an elderly woman after Abelard's death). Blackett, Monica. The Mark of the Maker: A Portrait of Helen Waddell. Constable, 1973. 57-8, 220 Æ
Publishing	Marie Belloc Lowndes	The publishers, Heinemann , caused controversy by refusing to provide copies on ordinary trade terms to the Times Book Club . The Times Literary Supplement therefore, even though it printed an appreciative review, urged its...
Reception	B. M. Croker	This novel was a selection of the Times Book Club . “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. 38480 (2 November 1907): 1 BMC 's Times obituarist thought it perhaps the best book she ever wrote. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. 42548 (22 October 1920): 13

Timeline

11 September 1905

The Times Book Club opened at 93 New Bond Street, London, and quickly ran afoul of the Net Book Agreement.

Kingsford, Reginald John Lethbridge. The Publisher’s Association, 1896-1946. Cambridge University Press, 1970.

Feather, John. A History of British Publishing. Croom Helm, 1988.

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Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990.

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November-December 1906

Mediation in the Book War (of the Times Book Club against the Net Book Agreement) was attempted unsuccessfully by an unofficial committee composed of several eminent authors.

Kingsford, Reginald John Lethbridge. The Publisher’s Association, 1896-1946. Cambridge University Press, 1970.

31-2

Texts

Meredith, George. Poems. Surrey ed., Vol.

3 vols.

, Times Book Club, 1912.