Constable

NM approached Victor Gollancz as an alternative to Cape; he seriously admired the book but declined it for fear of offending many of my best friends and damaging his effectiveness as a publisher of...

The contents of Murry's first journal edition were selected with an eye to keeping Mansfield acceptable to the public. Her biographer Alpers says it sealed her in porcelain for twenty years.Willa Cather ...

The Times reported that a libel action by Aleister Crowley had compelled the publisher Constable to halt all sales of NH 's Laughing Torso. Crowley asserted that anecdotes therein about himself had not a...

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

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...

Many of the poems here, according to a friend, were written on trains. Two were reprinted in Catherine Reilly 's Scars Upon My Heart, 1981. Sidgwick and Jackson , who had published RM

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...

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

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...