It is titled from a phrase in the book of Isaiah which is read by Christians as a prophecy of the persecutions awaiting the Messiah, or Jesus
Christ. Its dedication, To You Who Made Me...
She most probably wrote this novel after the Treaty of Versailles was signed on 28 June 1919. It was published by Allen and Unwin
(where Stanley Unwin
was her personal friend) only after rejection by...
Fletcher, Sheila. Maude Royden: A Life. Basil Blackwell, 1989.
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Rose Allatini
RA
chose George Allen and Unwin
to publish another novel, Root and Branch; the designation R. Allatini produced the impression that this was written by a man.
Mavrogordato, E. E. “Root and Branch”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 802, 31 May 1917, p. 262.
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Constance Smedley
CS
's epistolary novel Justice Walk, published with G. Allen and Unwin
this year but begun in 1915 during the Great War, was designed as an anti-war, pro-art polemic.
Brockington, Grace. “&A World Fellowship&: The Founding of the International Lyceum Club for Women Artists and Writers”. Lyceum Club.
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Texts
Betham-Edwards, Matilda. French Fireside Poetry. Editor Miall, Bernard, George Allen and Unwin, 1919.
Bingham, Madeleine. Henry Irving and the Victorian Theatre. George Allen and Unwin, 1978.
Braun, Thom. Disraeli the Novelist. George Allen and Unwin, 1981.
Brittain, Vera. Pethick-Lawrence: A Portrait. George Allen and Unwin, 1963.
Craig, Alec. The Banned Books of England and Other Countries. George Allen and Unwin, 1962.
Cruse, Amy. The Victorians and Their Books. George Allen and Unwin, 1935.
Ellis, Hamilton. British Railway History: An Outline from the Accession of William IV to the Nationalisation of Railways 1830-1876. George Allen and Unwin, 1954.
Ford, Ford Madox. The March of Literature: from Confucius to Modern Times. George Allen and Unwin, 1939.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Special Providence. George Allen and Unwin, 1930.
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin, 1935.
Jameson, Storm, and Susan Miles. “Foreword”. Portrait of a Parson, George Allen and Unwin, 1955, pp. 5-7.
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. Esmond in India. George Allen and Unwin, 1958.
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. The Nature of Passion. George Allen and Unwin, 1956.
Jullian, Philippe. The Radical Enlightenment: Pantheists, Freemasons, and Republicans. George Allen and Unwin, 1981.
Kamm, Josephine, and Mary Stocks. Rapiers and Battleaxes: The Women’s Movement And Its Aftermath. George Allen and Unwin, 1966.
MacDonagh, Oliver. Ireland: the Union and its Aftermath. George Allen and Unwin, 1977.
Betham-Edwards, Matilda. “Note by the Editor”. French Fireside Poetry, edited by Bernard Miall, George Allen and Unwin, 1919, p. 7.
Miles, Susan. Portrait of a Parson. George Allen and Unwin, 1955.
Rathbone, Eleanor. “The Remuneration of Women’s Services”. The Making of Women: Oxford Essays in Feminism, edited by Victor Gollancz, George Allen and Unwin, 1917.
Robinson, Howard. Carrying British Mails Overseas. George Allen and Unwin, 1964.
Royden, Maude. “Modern Love”. The Making of Women: Oxford Essays in Feminism, edited by Victor Gollancz, George Allen and Unwin, 1917, pp. 36-63.
Royden, Maude. “The Woman’s Movement of the Future”. The Making of Women: Oxford Essays in Feminism, edited by Victor Gollancz, George Allen and Unwin, 1917, pp. 128-46.
Royden, Maude. Women and the Church of England. George Allen and Unwin, 1916.
Royden, Maude. Women’s Partnership in the New World. George Allen and Unwin, 1941.
Smedley, Constance. Redwing. George Allen and Unwin, 1916.