Constable

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...

Meanwhile, because members of Constable 's were serving in the armed forces, HW went back to work in publishing. She became assistant editor of the Conservative monthly the Nineteenth Century and After (published by Constable)...

After the war, RM went to work as a reader of fiction for the Constable publishing house, who shortly afterwards published her books What Not and Three Days.

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.Kyllmann

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 .

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. In London, Pamela Hansford Johnson called the...

During the second world war Constable 's publishing office, where HW still worked, was bombed but quickly repaired. Her own house twice suffered damage from bombing: in 1944 and 1945. On the first...

Among her 3,000 subscribers were Joanna Baillie , Felicia Hemans , Robert Southey , William Wordsworth , Lady Bessborough , her sister Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , the minor poet Lady Dick , Elizabeth Hamilton

After long-drawn-out struggles with publishers over its sexual aspects, NM succeeded in publishing (with Constable ) her first novel with a contemporary setting, We Have Been Warned.

For The Three BrontësMS changed her publisher to Hutchinson , who had offered her a generous advance on her next three novels. She probably felt that Constable had not made enough effort on the...

The publisher Robinson initially encouraged EI to write her memoirs. She worked at them for years in old age, sending them to friends and publishers for comment. Publishers proved difficult: they feared scandal, yet were...

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...

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...

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...

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...