Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray, 1991.
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Employer | Rose Macaulay | |
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 | |
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 | Anna Seward | AS
had been in some kind of publishing negotiation with Constable
of Edinburgh for several years. Archibald Constable
visited her in April 1807. After this he consulted John Murray
in London, who advised him against... |
Publishing | Helen Waddell | The book was related to her highly successful lecture series of the same title given at Oxford the previous year, under the auspices of Lady Margaret Hall
, and based on research in the Bibliothèque Nationale |
Publishing | Rose Macaulay | Many of the poems here, according to a friend, were written on trains. Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944. 138 |
Publishing | Anna Seward | She had herself carefully revised her twelve manuscript volumes of copies, and had left them to a publisher. Scott (himself among her correspondents) said he would not help to perpetuate such gossip as the letters... |
Publishing | Anne Grant | 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 |
Publishing | Naomi Mitchison | |
Publishing | May Sinclair | 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... |
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... |