Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray, 1991.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Employer | Helen Waddell | In Michaelmas Term 1926 HW
had a second public academic success with an immensely popular course of lectures, contributed to the Oxford University programme by Lady Margaret Hall (LMH)
, under the title The Wandering... |
Employer | Helen Waddell | |
Employer | Rose Macaulay | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Helen Waddell | The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes several of HW
's relationships with older men (like Gregory Smith
, George Saintsbury
, and Otto Kyllmann
, chairman of Constable
) as platonic love affairs. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
Friends, Associates | Henrietta Camilla Jenkin | During these last years many friends, both from Edinburgh and from earlier times in HCJ
's life, remained faithful visitors or letter-writers: these included members of the Constable
publishing family, John Ruffini
, and Vernon Lee
. Stevenson, Robert Louis, and Fleeming Jenkin. “Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin”. Papers, Literary, Scientific, &c., edited by Sir Sidney Colvin, J. A. Ewing, Sir Sidney Colvin, and J. A. Ewing, Longmans, Green, 1877, p. 1: xi - clxx. cxlvii |
Literary responses | F. Tennyson Jesse | The New Yorker described the letters as having vigour, clarity, humour and elegance, and found FTJ
and her husband a tough pair of gentle writers. Colenbrander, Joanna. A Portrait of Fryn. A. Deutsch, 1984. 213 |
Other Life Event | Helen Waddell | |
Publishing | Elizabeth Inchbald | |
Publishing | Gwen Moffat | In 1998 GM
tried two new publishers: Severn House
for A Wreath of Dead Moths (about investigating the legacy of a plane crash in the mountains of Scotland soon after the second world war) and... |
Publishing | Muriel Spark | The book was not at the time published in the US or registered with the Library of Congress
. The result was a pirated edition, and largely for this reason MS
set about revising it... |
Publishing | Storm Jameson | This had been rejected by such publishers as Duckworth
and Fisher Unwin
before it was accepted, with revisions, by Michael Sadleir
at Constable
. Jameson had sent her typescript to Constable under her husband
's... |
Publishing | Edith Mary Moore | A novel entitled A Wilful Widow, which appeared in 1913, is evidently by EMM
. Difficulties with George Allen
had apparently caused her to change publishers (for the second time) to Constable
. The... |
Publishing | Muriel Spark | Robin Baird-Smith
, editorial director of Constable
, had laid on interviews and radio and tv appearances for Spark in Britain. Spark travelled with Jardine as far as the Channel ferry, but then said she... |
Publishing | Storm Jameson | SJ
planned to publish The Lovely Ship with Constable
. However, when Michael Sadleir
requested revisions and offered only a two-hundred-pound advance, she moved to Heinemann
, which gave her a four-hundred-pound advance and published... |
Publishing | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan |